Backpacks for a Fresh Start

In our latest project, we aim to help provide a fresh start for the thousands of patients who are homeless by providing a backpack with some winter supplies (hat, gloves), clothing (shirt, socks), and a hygiene kit. Through community donors, we were able to drop off our first set of donated backpacks to the amazing

2023: Building Backpacks for Better Futures, courtesy of Penn Medicine

Less than a month ago we got the exciting news that we received a Penn Medicine CAREs grant to help buy supplies and make backpacks again to help benefit the students of Bensalem School District. Working with the Rotary Club of Bensalem (especially Mr. Cohen!), we were able to make 50 backpacks last year— and

Turkey/Syria Earthquake Response

Barely a few weeks into 2023, Turkey and Syria were rocked by massive earthquakes with unprecedented damage affecting millions of people, including many refugees already displaced by conflict. With our hearts aching to help, we were fortunate to be able to collect hundreds of boxes of supplies (more than 10 pallets!) to donate to help

Toys for Philly’s Future

“With 82 percent of its patients covered by Medicaid, St. Christopher’s [Hospital for Children] has the highest Medicaid percentage of any pediatric academic medical center in the United States.” – Click for Source For the 2022 Holiday Season we helped collect toys to donate to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children to help bring a smile

Puerto Rico Hurricane Response

Teaming up with Philly Boricuas, along with wonderful donors from Thomas Jefferson University (Special thanks to Mr. Tony Moscatelli for his consistent generosity and HUGE HEART), Dr. Aisha Chaudhry, Dr. Pamela Neff, and Kate Giancatarino and her students from Villanova University, together we were able to donate more than 4 pallets of medical supplies including

Building Backpacks for a Better Bensalem

200 notebooks and 5000 pencils a year— That’s how many extra school supplies just a single high school teacher from our area gets to help Bensalem students. That’s in addition to the immense amount of time, energy, and dedication our teachers already give. Can we imagine how much the other teachers and staff collectively must

1 Year Summary Post

Tomorrow marks one year since the fateful e-mail to @WBLMD that started the wonderful whirlwind that has been @Breath4Humanity. But today, we were fortunate to be able to help UUARC load one of the containers heading to Poland to help those affected in #Ukraine️ #HelpUkraine Photo with Brenna Welman-Korsunsky (a student @JeffersonUniv ), her husband,

Ukraine: Donation 3

Several extremely kind and generous donors, including Dr. Aisha Chaudhry, DPM, Bensalem High School’s National Honor Society and their advisor Mrs. Carrie Cramer, and magnanimous anonymous donors helped us collect a MASSIVE amount of supplies (more than 2 pallets!, necessitating multiple trips to drop off). These included numerous orthopedic walking boots, gloves, blankets, linens, support

Ukraine: Donation 2

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital’s Mr. Tony Moscatelli (Associate VP of the Supply Chain) once again showed what a gem of person he is as he gathered boxes and boxes of medical supplies to donate to help the people of Ukraine. These included vitally needed supplies such as pediatric warming blankets, IV starter kits, gowns, surgical

Through Snow, Ice, and Rain, Helping our Neighbors in Ukraine

We’ve been heartbroken at recent events and were very grateful to be able to help. Today we dropped off the first donation of medical supplies (with more in the works hopefully!). Some amazing anonymous donors gave us gloves, oxygen tubing, ambu-bags, gauze, adult underpads, and more! With raised funds, we were able to purchase 99