The nonprofit provides therapeutic teddy bears to anyone experiencing a broken heart as a result of a loss or trauma. Volunteers packed more than 900 of the bears for Uvalde.
While the community of Uvalde, Texas continues to grieve for the 19 students and two teachers killed in last week's shooting at Robb Elementary School, a North County nonprofit is trying to help by delivering hundreds of therapeutic teddy bears to Uvalde.
“We're taking these now to the Civic Center, where they have a rescue and help set up, and we're going to hand out the cubs there," said Marcella Johnson, the founder of Encinitas-based "We have enough for every student in the school, and we have enough for the staff, and additionally we decided that there's a lot of people that are hurting in the community, so we're also donating another 300," Johnson said.
Johnson started the Comfort Cub after losing her newborn son. She said the weighted teddy bear brought her comfort. "We actually created the Comfort Cub to help to heal a broken heart. And we're talking about not just metaphorically, but, physically, the broken heart that I got, takotsubo syndrome, from losing a child,” she said.Johnson said this wasn't the first time she’d donated Comfort Cubs to families of mass shooting victims. But she said this donation was the largest.We're doing it with the hope that we will get enough donations to cover our costs," she said.
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