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Fair Webelos Pack 84 participated in a charity event where they made bracelets to brighten a kid’s day
The Webelos Pack 84 met with the kid philanthropy group, GLOW4Kids to make bracelets for children with cancer.
Webelos pack members gathered together at the Saint Raymonds cafeteria in East Rockaway on March 21 for their regular meeting. This meeting helped members check off a requirement in their book that’ll help them become part of the Cub Scouts. The requirement they checked off was called “Duty to God and Duty to You” where they focused on charity work.
GLOW4Kids started in Valley Stream with their mission being to make bracelets and drawings for kids in the hospital. A kid named Gabriella Vernov, who lost her grandmother and great grandmother to pancreatic cancer, started the foundation. “I was lucky to be a little older and made lasting memories together with them,” she said on the GLOW4Kids website. “I want to help kids battling with cancer and anyone who is fighting this disease. If I can make one person happy, I will be thankful.”
Sarina Vernov, sister of Gabriella Vernov and co-founder of GLOW4Kids, also participates in other types of charity work. “The last few summers have been spent raising money for cancer,” she said on the GLOW4Kids website. “This project was created from one of my birthday gifts and I want to give this gift to others.”
Annie Petraro, leader of the Webelos, thought that this philanthropy group would be perfect in helping the members accomplish one of their requirements. “Each kid made a bracelet for themselves and then one for a person in the hospital,” Petraro said. “Then the girls who run GLOW4Kids took the bracelets home and packaged them up to be sent to patients in hospitals.” Gabriella Vernov runs the foundation with her sister, Sarina, and brother, Feivel.
“They were very cognizant of making sure everyone was clean and if something fell, they made sure to not use that in the bracelet,” Petraro said about Gabriella Vernov and Sarina Vernov who were at the event.
Gabriella Vernov and Sarina Vernov made sure that the bracelets had a personable feel to them. “They asked people what their favorite color was and they also put the specific color representing a cancer on the bracelet,” Petraro said. March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month and GLOW4Kids uses blue to represent that form of cancer. So the Webelos Pack members incorporated blue into their bracelet design as well as other colors that represent other forms of cancer.
“It’s always nice to give back,” Petraro said about this charity event. “This event taught the kids about what other people in life may be going through.” Petraro thinks charity events like these are really beneficial to shaping young kids into “productive members of society.”
