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Kitsap County kids collecting toys to give to children in the hospital
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Some kids in Kitsap County are playing Santa for thousands of hospitalized children.
Zach Darner founded his youth-led non-profit Kidzz Helping Kidzz at just 7 years old. The non-profit collects toys every year to distribute to children in the hospital.
Zach's now thriving annual campaign was inspired by his own baby brother's stays in the hospital. Watching his brother hooked up to tubes and going through treatments was frightening for him, and inspired him to help other children who were also in the hospital and feeling scared, especially during the holidays.
Zach decided the best way to do that was through one thing all kids enjoy: Toys.
Zach's original goal was to collect 50 toys for kids, but he quickly surpassed that.
"We got nearly 300 the first year, so it was really great," Zach said.
The next year Zach aimed to collect 1,000 toys and now he is leading his all-volunteer army of kids to collect 5,000. The effort quickly outgrew the garage space and home storage they had to work with. This year Saint Michaels Medical Center donated some warehouse space to the nonprofit to help them collect and sort donations.
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https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/kitsap-county-kids-collecting-toys-children-hospital/281-eea9de75-f29d-4f42-848e-4d47c9df49c4