AUGUSTA, Ga. — Employees from Coca-Cola’s Augusta operation put together care kits for people being treated for cancer and dropped them off Thursday afternoon at the Georgia Cancer Center, where the bags will be passed along to patients.
The kits went to the cancer center’s Breast Cancer Care Program, which will hand them out to patients at the Outpatient Clinic. Inside every bag: a blanket with the Coca-Cola logo, a sock-style head covering, colored pencils, a water bottle from Ouala and a cooling pack, small comforts meant to help during long treatment days.
The delivery came as Breast Cancer Awareness Month winds down. Coca-Cola teamed up with Cheeriodicals, an Alabama company that runs corporate team-building projects, to assemble and hand out the breast cancer kits at 14 treatment sites in the region, with the Augusta stop among them.
Workers who packed the bags described them as a way to lift a patient’s spirits during a hard stretch and give them something warm to hold onto during treatment. The local store manager said the goal was simply to put a smile on someone’s face.
The Georgia Cancer Center belongs to the main Augusta hospital system, which also includes the Children’s Hospital of Georgia and works as the trauma referral center for a 13-county region. For patients from across that wider area who come to Augusta for treatment, the kits add a personal touch from a hometown employer during weeks of appointments.
Coca-Cola and Cheeriodicals timed the project to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Augusta delivery was one of the last stops as October came to a close. The bags were packed for comfort rather than medical use, with a blanket for chilly treatment rooms, a cooling pack and pencils to pass the time during appointments at the outpatient clinic.
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