National Grid Lends Hands to Kids with Cancer in HHH

National Grid workers traded their electric gloves for gardening ones to volunteer at Sunrise Day Camp, a summer day camp for children with cancer and their siblings, located in Wheatley Heights.

Splashing fresh coats fo paint onto the facility's walls, planting and spring cleaning, the volunteers got down and dirty to prepare the camp grounds for the summer season.

“Camp Sunrise is such a wonderful and special place and we are lucky enough to have it right here on Long Island,” said Michele Paoli, senior counsel in National Grid’s Legal Department and coordinator of the volunteer activity. “This was a great opportunity for our department to volunteer with a local community organization that is making a difference in people’s lives.”

Sunrise Day Camp is situated on the Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds, a 300-acre wooded site that borders the Half Hollow Hills area. Sunrise Day Camp offers a full, multi-week summer activity program plus year round camp-like programs. Additionally, Sunrise Day Camp staff and volunteers visit campers in the hospital as well as provide camp activity days for those who are awaiting treatment in hospital out-patient clinics.