Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Hosts Bay Area Stop on National Hyundai
Hope on Wheels Tour
Nationwide Charitable Program Lends Kids a 'Hand' in the Fight Against
Cancer
Released by Hyundai Motors
May 5, 2006
Contact: Meredith Hite (for Hyundai Hope On Wheels),
(214) 891-3581, office, (214) 564-5053, mobile, or e-mail meredith_hite@richards.com
Anne Trela (for Lucile Packard Children's Hospital), (650) 497-8489, office,
or e-mail anne.trela@lpfch.org
Robert Dicks (for Lucile Packard Children's Hospital), 650-387-7500, office,
or e-mail rdicks@lpch.org
PALO ALTO - Pediatric cancer patients being treated at Lucile
Packard Children's Hospital will join hospital administrators, doctors,
and nurses, along with local Hyundai dealers for a visit from the national
Hyundai Hope On Wheels tour, an initiative to raise awareness and funds
for pediatric cancer research.
The event will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, May 10, at
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto.
The Hope On Wheels tour travels the country gathering colorful handprints
on a Hyundai Tucson SUV from children who are battling – and beating
– pediatric cancer. The tour spreads an important message of hope
for finding a cure for childhood cancer and serves as a powerful visual
reminder to these kids and their families that they aren't alone in their
brave fight against this disease.
Also at the event, Bay Area Hyundai dealers will make a $50,000 contribution
to the hospital, earmarked for pediatric cancer research. Hyundai dealers
will also announce the creation of a new Hope On Wheels college scholarship
for pediatric cancer survivors.
Hope On Wheels (www.hopeonwheels.com)
is the symbol of Hyundai's longstanding commitment to fighting pediatric
cancer. Working with CureSearch National Childhood Cancer Foundation,
Hyundai dealers from across the country have contributed more than $7
million to date to the cause.
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