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Hannah's Hope Donates 1 Million Pop Tabs to Ronald McDonald House

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Written by Collin Czilli   

Hannah's Hope, a charity that focuses on donating money that fight children's brain injuries, donated over 1 million pop tabs to the Ronald McDonald House Charities in Chicago. The South Haven McDonalds hosted the event Saturday inside its playhouse with special guest Ronald McDonald.

Over the past two months Hannah's Hope has partnered with other community organizations and businesses, including Portage Township Schools and the Portage Township YMCA to collect pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House Charity in Chicago. Since starting the collections, Hannah's Hope has collected over 1 million pop tabs to donate to the charity. Special guest Ronald McDonald was even on hand to partake in the exciting event.

"Are you kidding me, when a community gets together and we do team work like this, we are able to accomplish so many great things and this is going to benefit a lot of people," McDonald said "fortunately we have people all over the city and all over the world that contribute these pop tabs, so we do have a lot of great people out there donating them."

Hannah's Hope founder and mother to the namesake, Mary Martinez was amazed by the outpouring of support from the entire community. The plan was to originally take the pop tabs up to Chicago without any assistance but the sheer numbers of pop tabs just did not make that possible.

"I was very excited when we got the schools involved and we started collecting the tabs and bringing them home," Martinez said "it was way more than I ever expected."

Hannah's Hope is hoping that their slogan will come true with this donation, helping Hannah help others.

Hannah's Hope will host their third annual golf outing at the Brassie Golf Club in Chesterton on July 14, 2012 and are planning a Volleyball Tournament for some time this summer, the date is to be determined. For more information on any of Hannah's Hope events or are interested in getting involved email the organization at info@hannahshope.org
 

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