It was Christmas in May for more than 70 young patients at the Family Health Center.
Dozens of gift-wrapped animal clocks lined the waiting area with giraffe, rhino and elephant faces peering from between the tissue paper, almost as if they wanted to see the look of surprise and delight on the children’s faces firsthand.
A joint venture between Wyndham Worldwide and Caring Capital, the wooden clocks were made during Wyndham’s recent Take-Your-Child-To-Work-Day and donated to the Morristown Medical Center clinic, which provides health care to the area’s medically underserved population.
“It was precious,” said Jeanine Giampietro, MSW, LCSW, clinical social worker at the Family Health Center. “It’s a rare occasion for the children we see here to get a gift like this. And it’s also special that it came from another child.”