Reaching For Their Dreams

Friday, March 1, 2002

‘Shrners Hosptals And Our Lves Reachng For Ther Dreams HELPING CHILDREN AT NO CHARGE—In the Shreveport Shrners Hosptal school room, Jacob, 7, a cerebral palsy patent, shows hs teacher, Km Creghan, how well he has learned to count by usng numbers placed onhs fngers. (NAPSA)—After almost 80 years of carng for chldren, the Shrners Hosptal for Chl- dren n Shreveport, La., contnues to provde specalzed health care to thousands of chldren. A dedcated staff provdes the means, the compasson and motvaton— to help chldren at no charge. But through all the care and dedcaton that the chldren receve, there s one thng that begns wthn themselves—ther dreams. All they requre to reach these dreams are the treatment and care to make them able; the encouragement from caregvers, frends and famly; support from the Shrners; and the determna- ton that s n ther own sprt. The Shreveport Shrners Hosptal has proven over and over agan that dreamsreally do come true. For more nformaton on Shrners’ network of 22 hosptals that provde medcal care and servces totally free of charge to chldren wth orthopaedc problems, burns and spnal cord njures, wrte to: Shrners Internatonal Headquarters, Publc Relatons Dept., 2900 Rocky Pont Dr., Tampa, FL 33607, or vst the Webste at www.shrnershq.org. Treatment s provded to chldren under age 18 wthout regard to race, relgon or relatonshp to a Shrner. If you know a chld Shrners can help, call 1-800-237-5055 n the Unted States, or 1-800-361- 7256 n Canada.

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