Date: 5/15/21 The pandemic changed life as we know it for everyone around the world, but especially our pediatric patients. With in-person volunteering being suspended to protect our buddies, we racked our brains on how to offer emotional and mental support without...
4/12/21 When the word “teenager” comes to mind, memories come flooding with it — getting behind the wheel for the first time, prom, first dates, graduating high school, and so many more. However, many of our adolescent buddies never get to make these memories due to...
3/4/2021 Monzer Alatrach, a senior at the University of Texas-Austin began his StudentsCare journey in 2018, as a Buddy in our Hospital Buddy program at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas. We asked Monzer to share his favorite memory with his Buddy...
Lorena Fernandez began volunteering with StudentsCare two years ago as a Hospital Buddy at Dell Children’s Medical Center. Last April, when StudentsCare launched a new buddy program for seniors isolated due to Covid, Lorena was one of the first to jump at the...
In June, Daniela Loo, a pre-med junior at the University of Miami, connected with Luis, a 92-year-old man affiliated with United HomeCare in Miami, Florida. Over just a few short months, what you might expect to be an unlikely friendship, turned into a beautiful one. ...
Volunteers give back with the hope that they will help others, but Delia Chen’s experience with her Pediatric and Senior Buddies have helped her too. Delia shared that her senior buddy, Carol, gives great advice and often reminds her to take care of herself too! Delia...
