Hetti's Smile Boxes is crowdfunding
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- Southampton, UK
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Hi! My name is Hetti and I created this program back in 2019 when I was a freshman in high school living in the US. Now, I am in second year of university in the UK.
I absolutely love giving back to my community and seeing others happy. I started this page to help me send out personalised care packages to children and their siblings with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses. As of the summer of 2023, I am living in the United Kingdom. Therefore, I am no longer sending to children in the United States, but am now focusing on sending packages to kids in the UK. Over the past few years, I have sent out over 160 packages to children all over the US and UK. I speak with the parents to find out more information about their child and then fill the smile boxes with toys, books, and games that I think would make their kid smile. For every box, I draw a card with their favorite character on it and make them a bracelet with their name.
On average, £28 (or $36) enables me to create and ship one of my smile boxes to a kiddo in the UK. However, I am beyond thankful for any amount of donations and every penny helps a ton! 100% of the donations that I receive go right towards the making/ shipping of the boxes :)
If anyone would like to nominate a friend or family member to receive a package, please don't hesitate to reach out to one of my social media platforms - I truly would love to send them one! I am so grateful for all the support!
Thank you all so so much!!
Hetti P-B ☺
Social media links: INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK
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- 10 months ago
Hetti's Smile Boxes
10 months agoHi everyone!! Thank you all so much for your tremendous support over the past week to raise £480 - you are all incredible!! Less than £100 to reach our goal to send out 20 smile boxes to establish the program here in the United Kingdom. This past week I had a visit to the Ronald McDonald House's Southampton House and met with the heads who said that would love to partner with me and send some packages to families staying at their House. Expect lots of packages to be sent out over the next few weeks!! Thank you all! Best, Hetti
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15
Babs Thomas
Sep 8, 2024
Such a wonderful thing to do Hettie. Delighted to help. xxx
£100.00
Andrew Price
Jul 10, 2024
Good work Hetti and Team.
£80.00
Anonymous
Jun 29, 2024
Love the work you are doing :-)
£40.00
Josh :)
Jun 28, 2024
Anne E Griffiths
Feb 26, 2024
An excellent initiative which will give pleasure to lots of children at such a vulnerable time in their lives.Well done - you should be very proud.
£50.00
Matt Southall
Feb 23, 2024
£100.00
Mark Hazell
Feb 21, 2024
Keep up the great work.
£100.00
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Hetti's Smile Boxes
Southampton, UK
Creating personalised care packages for kids with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses.