Blog – Page 15 – The Susan and Jack Holender Children’s Fund

The Joy of Helping Children

Lenore Suhanec2019-11-11T16:35:14-05:00May 6th, 2013|Campaigns, Events|

On a sunny April 13th, Susan and I had the pleasure of taking part in Give Kids Sight Day, the fourth such annual event initiated and coordinated by Wills Eye Institute. Benefitting over 700 uninsured and underinsured Philadelphia school children, the one-day program offered free eye screenings, free eyeglasses and full comprehensive ophthalmologic exams, as needed, to children who otherwise would have no access to eye care. As the nation’s first eye hospital, Wills has been a leader in eye care for over 180 years and has played a seminal role in shaping the field of ophthalmology, serving the community [...]

Grieving For The Innocent

We join with millions of people around the world in grieving for the innocent, young children of Newtown, Connecticut, whose precious lives were stolen from them. We grieve for their mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers whose lives will never be the same. We grieve for the surviving children in whose memories this tragedy will live on. We grieve for a world in which this kind of senseless inhumanity exists. Our prayers are with the Newtown families. May the memory of those lost guide us to find the means to prevent such outrages in the future.