Celebrate Lunar New Year with Panda Express to Help Change Kids’ Health!
Mark your calendars for January 29, 2025, as we ring in the Year of the Snake! Lunar New Year is a festive time to gather with family, friends, and communities to welcome new beginnings. In true tradition, it’s a celebration filled with vibrant festivals, joy, and of course, the sharing of lucky foods to spread fortune and happiness for the year ahead!
Since 2007, Panda Express has been changing kids’ health to change the future at Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals by raising millions dollars throughout the year. Associates ask guests to round up at the register, with every dollar donated supporting the local children’s hospital.
In 2024 alone, millions were raised to fund programs and initiatives that help kids thrive. Additionally, many new Panda Cares Centers of Hope spaces were able to open. These dedicated spaces are designed to provide a safe and comforting place where kids can be kids again while they receive the care they need to become the future leaders, inventors, and doctors of tomorrow!
In 2022, thanks in part to a $1.5 million commitment from Panda Express, Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters (CHKD) was able to open a new children’s mental health hospital and outpatient center, Children’s Pavilion, to serve as the foundation of CHKD’s mental health services.
Within Children’s Pavilion is CHKD’s Panda Cares Center of Hope on the 12th floor. This space inspires hope and promotes healing by providing specially curated programs that address each child’s entire well-being. The donation supports therapeutic play, art therapy, mediation, counseling services, and a family lounge in the pavilion. The donation aligns with Panda’s “Four Pillar” philosophy to address each child’s entire well-being, including their mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual needs, and by giving the children the courage and strength to survive. Watch this video to learn more.
This Lunar New Year, please join us in celebrating by visiting your local Panda Express and donating and helping to ensure that spaces like CHKD’s Panda Cares Center of Hope are available for children who need it.
Thank you, Panda Express, and Happy Lunar New Year! Let’s welcome the Year of the Snake with hope, health and happiness for all!
