Organization provides ‘hugs’ for sick, dying children

Submitted on November 06, 2009

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Jennifer Brinker

Students and faculty at Visitation Academy in Town and Country made blankets for sick children at St. Louis Children’s Hospital as part of the Hugs for Kids program. Toni Pagano, a member of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish in Creve Coeur, founded the nonprofit organization in 2001.

There’s a special “hug” out there for children who are sick or facing a life-threatening illness.

Thanks to the efforts of a local nonprofit organization, thousands of children here and around the country have received these “hugs” in the form of warm, fleece blankets.

The group was founded in 2001 by Toni Pagano, a member of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish in Creve Coeur.

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