By enabling patients to become involved in a satisfying, creative activity, HHV arts & crafts greatly improve patient morale, making them more responsive to treatment and ultimately easier to care for.

Among paraplegics, for example, the kits are particularly valuable in rebuilding self-esteem and confidence. The challenge of completing a particularly difficult kit helps a patient discover that he or she can again be a useful, productive human being.

Similarly with geriatric patients, work on the kits injects new meaning into the lives of so many who have given up on themselves. Through the kits they gain a new sense of accomplishment and personal worth, which in many cases brings about a remarkable change in their entire state of mind.

Wards that were once a picture of despair come alive with activity and conversation. Those who were sitting around and quite literally "waiting to die" seem as if they have a new lease on life.