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Pint-Sized Heroes | Baskin-Robbins


At Baskin-Robbins, we’re enthusiastic about happiness. That’s why we created the Baskin-Robbins Pint-Sized Heroes program to carry smiles to kids who’re receiving care at hospitals throughout the nation and proceed to encourage pleasure of their communities. By means of the generosity of our franchisees, Group Members, companions and friends, the Baskin-Robbins Pleasure in Childhood Basis is ready to present grants in honor of our Pint-Sized Heroes in order that they proceed to make an influence on different children going through challenges of their communities. This month, we’re recognizing a Pint-Sized Hero who evokes others to remain optimistic regardless of the challenges they might face. Hold studying to be taught extra about our new Pint-Sized Hero, Lex.

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Lex was identified with high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia on the age of 10. He went into remission after his first spherical of chemotherapy and finishing 10 months of intense therapy, earlier than shifting to over 2 years of month-to-month upkeep therapy. The therapies had been onerous on his physique and restricted his capability to go to high school and take part in his common actions, however regardless of this set again, he claims he’ll dwell identical to his blood sort and “B optimistic.”  Lex amazes everybody round him together with his willpower, optimism, and deep perception within the greater plan for his life and is a crucial a part of the neighborhood at Kids’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

Lex created a social media marketing campaign to boost cash to buy port shirts for inpatient kids receiving care on the similar hospital, which helped elevate funds for youths preventing most cancers and different life-threatening ailments. He has helped elevate over $1million for native charities, has traveled to numerous cities sharing his story, continues to attend occasions in and round Atlanta to share his story and assist Kids’s elevate cash to carry consciousness to pediatric most cancers, and even created his personal fundraising mission known as Most cancers Playing cards which give reductions to native retailers and eating places and have helped herald practically $90,000 for Kids’s. Most just lately, Lex was nominated as an Honorary Development Supervisor for the substitute hospital, Arthur M. Clean of Kids’s Healthcare of Atlanta.  

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Baskin-Robbins is overjoyed to acknowledge Lex as a Pint-Sized Hero and to assist him in his mission of creating the world a greater place. To pay it ahead, the Baskin-Robbins Pleasure in Childhood Basis is granting $31,000 in his title to Kids’s Healthcare of Atlanta to make use of on youngster life programming. To point out our gratitude to Lex, we’re treating him to a yr of free ice cream, so he can have fun each candy second with Baskin-Robbins!

To be taught extra about and assist the Pint-Sized Heroes program, go to https://joyinchildhoodfoundation.org/our-impact/baskin-robbins/ .

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