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After exchanging four letters full of details about favorite colors, foods, hobbies and more, a group of elementary school students met their BWH pen pals face to face last week.
“At Mission Grammar School, the students gave their pen pals tours of their classrooms and read and drew pictures together,” said Pamela Audeh, who manages the program run by the BWH Center for Community Health and Health Equity. “At the Tobin School, we had a pizza party in the Cafeteria.”
BWHers who volunteer to write to students through the program are matched with grade two and three students from Mission Grammar School and grade two students from the Tobin School. “The program allows students to practice their writing skills and also learn about different jobs in the hospital from their BWH pen pals,” Audeh said.
Now in its second year, the program has doubled the number of pen pals from last year with 107 students and 107 BWHers writing to each other. Audeh creates topics for each letter, such as “What I wanted to be when I was a student,” and pen pals write about the topic and ask each other questions.
The pen pals will swap four more letters before the end of the school year and meet again at a year-end party.
See more photos of pen pals.