Southampton - The Town of Southampton Kiwanis Club presented Southampton Hospital with the first of two donations, the proceeds from their recent carnivals in Bridgehampton, totaling $25,000. The funds will be applied toward the pediatric emergency treatment room in the newly renovated Jenny and John Paulson Emergency Department.

"It is never easy for children to deal with a trauma and we want to try to ease the stress of the experience in any way we can by making the room child friendly and almost entertaining," commented Kiwanis Co-Secretary, Jim McMahon. The funding will enable the Hospital to tailor the room for children to make their experience at the Hospital as stress free as possible.

According to member Eric Nastri, "The Hospital has always been good to us and our families over the years and this is our time to give back."

Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world, one child and one community at a time.