The Nittany Lion was able to make put smiles on the faces of sick children while also promoting a fundraiser for THON.
The Lion took a trip down to the Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital to help celebrate its second birthday on Tuesday, providing young patients at the medical center with some wintry gear in the form of Nittany Lion knit hats.
“We would like to thank Penn State Hershey Association of Faculty and Friends (AFF), the hospital’s Child Life Program and Lion’s Pride of State College for their generosity in helping the Lion provide the birthday hats for our young patients,” the hospital says.
The hats were donated by Lions Pride, a Penn State merchandise store located at 112 E. College Ave. You can purchase your very own Nittany Lion hat at the local store right now, and for the time being, the sale will help benefit THON ahead of the fundraiser’s big weekend, which kicks off on Friday at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Lions Pride is in the tail end of a 4 Weeks 4 THON promotion that aims to raise money for the fight against pediatric cancer. The store is donating 20 percent of every purchase made to THON for both online and in-store sales. The store is also selling shirts that read “We Are All About That Cure” as part of the promotion, with all proceeds from the $15 shirt going to THON. If you make a purchase of $75 or more, the shirt is free.
This is one of many fundraising efforts for THON on the part of local businesses, but it isn’t often that you get to see the end result of those efforts come to life in the smiles of children at Penn State Hershey.
THON is the largest student-run philanthropic effort in the world and has donated over $100 million to the Four Diamonds Fund, a charity that directly supports about 600 children with cancer every year. Those children are located at the Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital.
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