A group has a photo taken in a newly renovated room at the Medicine Hat Hospital. The Medicine Hat High School Interact Club raised all funds to make the room happen.--NEWS PHOTO MO CRANKER
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The Medicine Hat High School Rotary Interact Club is hoping its work can make the lives of hospitalized children a little brighter.
The group was responsible for raising all the funds to renovate a new, ocean-themed room in the pediatric unit. It was opened on Friday.
“We worked with the Health Foundation on this and we saw this as the perfect opportunity to help our community,” said co-president Micheal Hope. “This was a really big project for us and we’re happy to see this completed.”
The room is a standard one for the pediatric ward, and now features art on the walls and doors to help brighten the day of whomever is staying there.
“We want this to bring joy to kids,” he said. “We did a lot of fundraising with things like bake sales and we applied for a grant to help the project.”
The Interact Club raised around $5,000 for the project and is sitting around 25 members strong.
“We usually work on one international project and one local project per year, this year we decided to focus on the hospital for our local project,” said Hope. “We’re always happy to help out people where we live.”
