Extra Mile: ALLEN, Edgar plaque in Washington, D.C. by Sam Pena

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The organization that would become Easter Seals was founded by Edgar Allen, an Ohio-businessman who lost his son in a streetcar accident. The lack of adequate medical services available to save his son prompted Allen to sell his business and begin a fund-raising campaign to build a hospital in his hometown of Elyria, Ohio. That hospital continues to operate today as EMH Regional Medical Center. After the hospital was built, Allen learned that children with disabilities were often hidden from public view. Inspired by this discovery, in 1919 he founded what would become the National Society for Crippled Children, the first organization of its kind. Easter Seals is a nonprofit charitable organization that assists more than one million children and adults with autism and other disabilities and special needs annually through a network of more than 550 service sites in the United States, Canada, Australia and Puerto Rico. Sites provide services, therapies and treatments tailored to meet the specific needs of the particular community it serves. The organization assists children and adults with physical and mental disabilities and special needs resulting from any cause, whether diagnosed at birth or incurred through disease, accidental injury or the aging process. Source: Wikipedia

Edgar Allen
1862-1937
Edgar "Daddy" Allen founded Easter Seals in 1919. Inspired by his vision and passion, Easter Sealscreates solutions that change lives and asures that children and adults with disabilities can livewith equality, dignity, and independence.
"Your life and mine should be valued not by what we take ... but by what we give."

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Artist: Sam Pena(click name for more of that artist's work)
Related subjects: Philanthropists
Location: 15th St NW between Pennsylvania Av & F St Washington, D.C. Extra Mile

Nearest Metro: Federal Triangle(Orange - Blue - Silver) (click station name for all sculptures nearby) (dcMem ID #714 )

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