PRESS RELEASE: Kids Helping Kids! Flour Bluff Teens roll Up Their Sleeves & Suds Up to Send Youngsters Living with Asthma to Camp

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
November 3, 2005

MEDIA - FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Deborah Perry Phone (361) 442-4538
www.driscollchildrens.org

KIDS HELPING KIDS!
FLOUR BLUFF TEENS ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES & SUDS UP
TO SEND YOUNGSTERS LIVING WITH ASTHMA TO CAMP

Flour Bluff Key Club sponsored by the Southside Kiwanis Club hosts …
a benefit car wash to help send kids to Camp Easy Breathers,
a camp for children living with asthma sponsored in part by Driscoll Children’s Hospital

Saturday, November 5, 2005 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Mr. Fancy Pants Car Wash (the corner of Staple and Lipes Streets)
Donations accepted for car washing
Free and open to the public

(Corpus Christi, TX) How could five SUV’s at $20 each help a child go to camp? Sponsored by the Southside Kiwanis Club, the Flour Bluff Key Club, comprised of high school juniors and seniors, are lending a wet, soapy hand during a benefit car wash to help youngsters living with asthma go to camp next summer. On Saturday, November 5th, they will be holding the car wash at Mr. Fancy Pants on the corner of Staples and Lipes Streets from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Funds raised will offset tuition costs for youngsters attending Camp Easy Breathers, a one week summer day camp for children with moderate to severe asthma. The camp is designed to provide physical and social experiences that are fun while increasing a child’s understanding of his or her asthma. Tuition for one child is approximately $100.

Asthma affects an estimated 15 million Americans, one-third of who are children. Although there is no cure for the disease, living a healthy, active life with asthma is in fact possible. Asthma is a chronic disorder in which the airways in the lungs become swollen, clogged, and overly sensitive to changes in the environment. During an attack, the muscles that surround the airways tighten, and the inner lining of the airways swells and pushes inward. Asthma kills about 5,000 Americans each year and costs the United States over $10 billion dollars a year in direct and indirect medical expenses. Timely diagnosis, appropriate treatment, developing and managing a partnership with a health care professional, as well as reducing exposure to environmental factors all assist in living with asthma.

The Southside Kiwanis Club supports and sponsors the Flour Bluff High School Key Club. They train young students in leadership skills through community service in an effort to better prepare them to be good citizens in the future.

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About Driscoll Children’s Hospital
“Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health …
Improve the health of children and you give them their life.”

Since opening its doors in 1953, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been offering hope and healing to the children of South Texas for half a century. The facility is a 189-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. Each year, more than 6,000 children are admitted for inpatient care, 5,000 for day surgery, and 50,000 for outpatient primary and specialty care, as well as 40,000 for emergency care, as the first South Texas hospital with emergency services exclusively for children. Additionally, Driscoll maintains a state-of-the-art ground/air transport team, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and specialized medical outreach.

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