Sparking the Interest of Young Patients
Children at Ronald McDonald House in New York enjoy the Weird Science class.
The Ronald McDonald House Charities provide a home away from home for families of seriously ill children, allowing parents to be near their children while they are receiving treatment in hospital. The facilities are located close to children’s intensive care units and are a haven where families can escape the stress of the hospital environment.
There are Ronald McDonald Houses around the world but the Ronald McDonald House in New York City is the largest facility of its type and can accommodate 84 families. Among the activities it offers these young cancer patients and their siblings is an educational programme called Weird Science, which is taught twice a week by Christine Taylor, a teacher who has herself survived cancer. The classes help the children retain a sense of normal life, nurture their emotional wellbeing and provide moments of pure enjoyment.
Johnson Matthey New York donated two plasma globes to be used in the Weird Science class. The globes had originally been used on the Johnson Matthey stand at a jewellery trade fair in New York to demonstrate the potential for palladium in the jewellery industry. Now in their new role in Weird Science, they played their part in sparking the interest of the children at the Ronald McDonald House in New York City and contributed to an exciting and energising educational programme.
More than 10 million families around the world have benefited from the Ronald McDonald House Charities and Johnson Matthey New York saw this as a worthy organisation to contribute to and to assist with a project that has had a huge impact on the children.
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