Volunteers Sought for 25th Anniversary Kids Day | Community Spirit

Volunteers are needed to take to the streets on Tuesday, March 6 to sell special editions of The Fresno Bee for the 25th anniversary Kids day event benefiting Children's Hospital Central California. The event is sponsored by a number of media organizations and Children's Hospital.

Volunteers are needed throughout the day, but particularly in the early morning hours of March 6.

Papers are sold on Valley street corners from 5:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Kids Day editions of the Fresno Bee feature heartwarming patient stories and photographs. They are sold in 20 different cities throughout the Central Valley.

This year's fundraising goal is $450,000.

About 5,000 volunteers are needed to sell Kids Day editions, and while many volunteer year after year, more volunteers are always welcome. To register to be a volunteer, register here. For more information on volunteering, please call 559.353.7100.

Those who want to help but aren't able to purchase a Kids Day newspaper have the opportunity to give $5 at a time by texting the word, "George," to 90999.

For nearly 60 years Children's Hospital Central California has provided hope, healing and the best medical care for children of the region. Children's is a not-for-profit, state-of-the-art children's hospital on a 50-acre campus situated on the bluffs of the San Joaquin River. With 348 beds and a medical staff of more than 525 physicians, Children's is the second-largest children's hospital in California and one of the 10 largest hospitals of its type in the nation.