The Child’s Play charity is back!
Since 2003, over 100,000 gamers worldwide have banded together through Child’s Play, a community based charity grown and nurtured from the game culture and industry. Over two million dollars in donations of toys, games, books and cash for sick kids in children’s hospitals across North America and the world have been collected since our inception.
For the last two years, I’ve held a fund-raising event in Brooklyn for Child’s Play called, cleverly, “Fünde Razor“*, where we get together and play Guitar Hero (and this year, Rock Band), drink some beer, and raffle away lots of swag and gadgets and other prizes. Every last dollar goes to Child’s Play.
We’ll be holding Fünde Razor again this year, but I’m happy to announce that we’ll be adding a sister event in Denver, hosted by Brian Crecente, editor (among other things) of Kotaku. More details will be coming soon, but if you live in either Brooklyn or Denver and have the evening free on Wednesday, December 12th, it’ll be a great time. If you can’t make it, don’t be shy to pick out some games for kids or donate money directly via the Child’s Play website. (Heck, even if you can make it, don’t let attending Fünde Razor stop you from making a donation from the comfort of your office chair. I always pick out a couple games I think kids would like every year by hand.)
Child’s Play Charity (dot org)
* Three years in and I still don’t know how to pronounce “Fünde Razor.” Fyoon-duh Ray-zor? I guess as long as I use a German accent…
Awesome, I’ll make it to the Denver event if that night ends up being free (it’s so hard to plan Nov/Dec, busy time of the year!).
One of the coolest things the Hospital for Sick Kids did for my brother as he recovered from surgery was let him play a ridiculous number of video games. It served a double purpose – guaging his hand/eye co-ordination, and since we didn’t have and couldn’t afford one at home, it made the hospital stay really pleasant.