Greetings North Central District!
For the past three years, the Theta chapter of Tau Beta Sigma has donated their time to the Ronald McDonald House. We have done various activities such as prepare meals for the residents staying at the house as well as collect pop tabs.
The Ronald McDonald House is a “home-away-from-home” for families of seriously ill children who are receiving treatment at nearby hospitals. Families travel great distances in order for their children to get sufficient medical care. In-hospital treatment may last one day, to a year, and sometimes even longer. Accommodations can be difficult to come by and the options that are available can be very expensive or unbearable. Families also have the opportunity to become acquainted and find comfort with other families that are residing at the house. The Ronald McDonald House provides a warm and welcoming environment for these families to stay at no cost but do request a donation between five and twenty dollars per day. If families cannot afford to make a donation then they may stay at no cost. Funding for the Ronald McDonald house primarily generates from the collection and donation of pop tabs.
Theta has set up cardboard boxes around the band room to promote the collection as well as encourage members of the band to gather tabs at their own homes. The response that we have received since beginning this project has been astounding! We are constantly delivering bags of tabs to the Ronald McDonald House.
Aside from collecting pop tabs, we donate our time to prepare a meal for the residents at least once every quarter. We schedule a date for when we would like to help and then create a meal plan that we would like to serve. In the past we have prepared breakfast consisting of eggs, pancakes, muffins, bagels, fruit, bacon, and beverages. Once the families have been served we join them in their meal.
This is by far, one of the most popular and rewarding projects we have participated in. We encourage everyone to contact your local Ronald McDonald House and see what you can do to help the families that are enduring stress while their loved ones are receiving the proper care they need in order to return to their normal life as a family.
In The Bond,
Theta Chapter – Tau Beta Sigma
The University of Cincinnati
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