Dec 26, 2022 | Martin O'Brien | 113 views
Nice Work U9 MD2!
To give back to the Ajax-Pickering community, this year the U9 MD2 team supported a
Backpacks for Mental Health initiative for the
Lakeridge Health Ajax Pickering Hospital Foundation.
The boys teamed up to assemble backpacks with gifts, and messages of support for those in the hospital over the holiday season. The mental health staff will secretly deliver these backpacks to all the bedside tables of those admitted to hospital during the night of December 24th. Knowing that this group of patients are so often marginalized within society, the mental health team want them to thrive in the community as much as possible once they leave the Lakeridge Health Ajax Pickering hospital.
The backpacks were delivered to the foundation on December 20th, and the staff were elated to see the generosity and thought that the teams had put in assembling these backpacks. We are so proud of all the efforts of these teams, and the fact that they rallied together to make a big difference in their community this holiday season.
This initiative is a great reminder that hockey isn't just about what happens on the ice, but also about the far reaching impacts it can have off of it. Thank you to the players and families of U9 MD2 team and the Fabian family who helped make this happen!