The Shriners Hospital For Children is a non-profit organization that has made a huge impact on the children at Shriners Hospital It was formed to help transform the delivery of health care for children with orthopaedic conditions, burn injuries, spinal cord injuries and birth defects all around the world. Walter. M . Fleming and William J. “Billy” Florence are the founders of the Shriners Hospital. walter and Billy they were apart of the Mason Fraternity and their other fortunity brothers were thinking of coming up with a non profit organization that would help children. It made it even more reasonable for Walter and Billy to start the organization because they wanted to be physicians and surgeons. Walter and Billy wanted their organization to be based off of fun, fellowship, and the Masonic principles of brotherly love, relief, and truth. The Masons Group gathered for lunch at the Knickerbocker Cottage in New
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There's One story about a girl named Kechi Okwuchi that got burned bad she got burned so bad she had third degree burn. She was on a plane with 60 of her boarding classmates going home to Nigeria and the plane crashed 2 out of the 109 passengers lived and she was one of the 2 to live. She woke up five weeks later in a South African hospital with third degree burns over 65 percent of her body, she spent 7 month at the hospital fighting for her life. The hospital in Nigeria was not helping cure the burns it was just making sure she stay alive, so they contacted Shriner in Galveston so they can try to cure her burns. When Kechi got there she had more than 100 surgeries. After Kechi healed she is getting a big standing ovation award from the audience for her performance of Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud for a national TV show, And shriners helped her get there. Now that she moved on from her surgeries and healing from her accident she sings in front of live audiences and she has
There's One story about a girl named Kechi Okwuchi that got burned bad she got burned so bad she had third degree burn. She was on a plane with 60 of her boarding classmates going home to Nigeria and the plane crashed 2 out of the 109 passengers lived and she was one of the 2 to live. She woke up five weeks later in a South African hospital with third degree burns over 65 percent of her body, she spent 7 month at the hospital fighting for her life. The hospital in Nigeria was not helping cure the burns it was just making sure she stay alive, so they contacted Shriner in Galveston so they can try to cure her burns. When Kechi got there she had more than 100 surgeries. After Kechi healed she is getting a big standing ovation award from the audience for her performance of Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud for a national TV show, And shriners helped her get there. Now that she moved on from her surgeries and healing from her accident she sings in front of live audiences and she has