Everyone loves their birthday. It’s the best day of the year, a day all about you. As children birthdays are far more exciting, cake covered in frosting, family and friends singing your praises and, of course, presents, what more is there to love? As we get older though, birthdays become more of a reminder of our age than a time for celebration, so it is important to cherish those early years when it’s all fun and games.

Unfortunately for children all over the world, illness and injury can take those happy years away. From a broken leg to regular intensive cancer treatment, it’s hard to have a party from a hospital bed. Yet, for some of those patients, being alive, to have survived another year, may be the only thing to celebrate.

There are numerous organizations that look to help better the lives for children in the hospital, from different groups like Make-A-Wish, which provide opportunities of seriously or terminally ill children to live out a dream, to those that provide the comforts of home from books and blankets to artwork and entertainment. None of them, though, address how scary and disappointing it can be to spend a birthday in the hospital as a child.

The Confetti Foundation tries to bring a little bit of cheer back into the birthdays of these patients with birthday boxes. Filled with party supplies like plates, utensils, party hats and banners, birthday boxes have everything you need to throw a celebration right in your hospital room. They provide a moment to return to normalcy, a moment for patients to just be a kid again. The boxes provide a time where not just a patient but their whole family as well can relax and take a break from constant worrying.

Established by native Rhode Islander Stephanie Frazier Grimm, the foundation has affiliations with children’s hospitals across the country and has delivered nearly 1,000 boxes over two years, working completely through volunteer work.

Frazier Grimm, a birthday party lover herself, has received well-deserved national attention for her efforts, for what better cause than making a child’s day, especially their birthday.

Her birthday boxes average only $22 to make and ship. That’s $22 to make a child’s day. The next time you’re celebrating anything, think about picking up an extra tablecloth, an additional package of plates, and making a donation, to have a part in making a child’s day yourself.