A thoughtful dad “Bryan Ware” was inspired to make the Crayons initiative while watching his two sons color during a birthday dinner. I really wondered, what happened to these crayons after we leave if we don’t take them with us?
Later on, Bryan asked a restaurant employee this same question and was distressed to hear that all the crayons are thrown out after they leave even if they are left untouched. After thinking a lot to change the crayons’ wasteful fate, Bryan Ware started to take them home because he was sure he could find a way to give these surplus coloring tools to a kid in need. Therefore, from this simple, yet awfully considerate idea, the Crayon Initiative was born.
This nonprofit organization’s objective is to recycle old crayons into a new life for the children at California-based hospitals. To make his project successful he collects useless crayons from all over, i.e. restaurants, schools, Family, and friends.
Then, he starts to melt them down and converts them into a special mold to form fresh drawing utensils. Hence, the special mold is the important key because it was developed in collaboration with an occupational therapist to make it easy for special needs children to hold. Since its conception, this non-profitmaking has donated over two thousand crayon boxes to children’s hospitals.
This month, the initiative will perform its very first out-of-state donation to a New York City hospital. In doing so Ware hopes to continue expanding as he helps hospitalized youth all across the country. He says, from my viewpoint, the main goal is to give them an escape, and I can’t even fathom what these kids are going through. If these crayons gives them an escape from that hospital room for 10 minutes, we’ll think, we did our job. Source: My Modernmet
