Sunday, February 1, 2015

Help save The Prouty Garden at Boston Children's Hospital

This is an email sent out earlier today.  I am posting it in hopes that others will read it and want to sign the petition as well.  
 
 
 
Hello to all of you.

The Prouty Garden at Boston Children's Hospital is at great risk of being bulldozed down for more hospital space.  The Prouty Garden is truly an oasis in the middle of the hospital's grounds.  Peter and I went there countless times during his many hospitalizations and medical visits.  It never failed to cheer us up, rain, snow, sun, heat, or cold.  It was a break from being confined indoors, from being a patient.  Peter found snails, rabbits, squirrels, smelled the flowers, tasted the rain, felt the warm sun on his face.  Having experienced a lengthy hospital stay at another hospital without any place for patients to go outdoors, I can emphatically state how much that garden is helpful to the patients and families at BCH.

Two years ago, a petition was started in effort to save the garden. There have also been several news articles about the probable loss of the garden  At this point it looks like there aren't that many more signatures needed to hit the petition goal of 10,000 signatures, and I imagine the goal would be surpassed if more people who have visited BCH knew about the petition.  Would you consider reading the petition and signing?  Would you also consider asking others you know to sign?  The site is change.org, and to keep them from sending you more petitions, just hit the Unsubscribe link in the email that they send you.  This is the link for the Prouty Garden petition.   Boston Children's Hospital: Preserve Prouty Garden
 
Thank you,
Kathryn