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Debbra Sargeant has a handle on Easter baskets. Last weekend, the Dialysis patient care assistant made 20 of them for students at the Lucy Stone and Oliver Wendell Holmes elementary schools in Dorchester.
“Everyone in Dialysis donated items to fill the baskets,” Sargeant said. “We had everything you could imagine in those baskets: books, calculators, purses, watches, Frisbees, pens, pencils and lots of candy.”
Sargeant invited her colleagues and a group of children from her Mattapan neighborhood to help create the baskets. Thanks to Sargeant, these children are learning early on the difference they can make. One even suggested that next year they make the baskets for children in an orphanage.
“Debbie has a way of getting people involved in charitable and community events and clears the path for members of our unit to contribute time and materials to many worthwhile endeavors,” Stephen Ortolano, RN, of Dialysis, said. “Once again, she has made a valuable contribution, not only to the children of Boston, but also to the group morale of the Dialysis Unit and by positively portraying the hospital as an organization that reaches out to its friends and neighbors in the Boston community.”
Sargeant has a long history of reaching out to those in need, especially during the holidays. Last spring, she made Easter baskets for churches in Dorchester and Mattapan, and last Christmas, she took up a collection for a homeless family in Brockton.
“I just feel like we should contribute,” Sargeant said, adding that the entire Dialysis Unit is behind each of her projects. “The whole unit just comes together. It’s a group of very caring people, not only for our own patients but for the community as well.”