HUNTINGTON -- The former Huntington YWCA's $130,000 donation to the Cabell Huntington Hospital Children's Hospital project seemed like the right fit for the last of the former organization's funds.

"It is bittersweet for us to have to close and to sell our building," Karen Berry, former president of the YWCA, said in a press release. "It is in our mission to give our money to help children and women, and this was the only place that we could see that would really fit the bill."

Former members of the board toured the hospital's Pediatrics Unit and children's facilities.

"It is most gratifying to have the Young Women's Christian Association choose our Children's Hospital project to carry on their decades-old legacy of serving women and children of this region," David Graley, vice president and chief operating officer of the Cabell Huntington Hospital Foundation, said in a release. "This gift will give us a special reason to provide the best, most specialized health care for children in our entire area."

The YWCA closed at the end of 2008 after 87 years in the Huntington community.

The Cabell Huntington Hospital Children's Hospital project has raised more than $5 million to reconstruct the existing children's areas in the hospital and the construction of a new entrance solely for children.

For more information about the project, visit www.cabellhuntington.org or call 304-526-2009.

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The former board members of the Huntington YWCA gathered recently at Cabell Huntington Hospital after donating the organization’s final $130,000 to the ChildrenÕs Hospital project. Shown here (from left to right): Jenny New, board member; Elaine Whitfield, board member; Karen Berry, president; Brenda Keyser, treasurer; Janet Swann, volunteer; Sandy Bush, former executive director and volunteer; Jean Johnson, board member. Lee Moore, board member, is not pictured.