Give a Hippo . . . Share a Smile!
Do you know someone who’s living with a life-challenging illness?
Let’s lift their spirits by sending them a Healing Hippo. Simply send us an email and we’ll send a Healing Hippo, “Buttercup” to the person in need.
Who can arrange for a Healing Hippo?
If you are family, friend, medical personnel or social worker, you can arrange to have a Healing Hippo delivered.
Eligibility:
To be eligible to receive a Healing Hippo you must meet the following criteria:
- The recipient has a life-threatening medical condition.
- The recipient has not already received a Healing Hippo.
- The person submitting the request must include in the email the reason why a Healing Hippo would be helpful to the recipient.
Hippo Outreach
Healing with Smiles believes that smiles and laughter should be shared. It binds people together, increases happiness and creates hope.
To help us promote smiles, we created a mascot named Buttercup. Buttercup, our Healing Hippo, is a 12 inch plush hippopotamus that is packaged with an inspirational message. We have found that presenting Buttercup creates an instant smile.
We set up programs with Hospitals and Senior Centres where batches of our Healing Hippos are delivered to a coordinator who arranges with the nursing and volunteer staff to distribute them to patients.
Buttercup inspires courage and hope in people of all ages and provides a much needed distraction to medial tests or procedures for the patient and enables medical personnel to focus on the task at hand.