Charity Work
Realizing that she was in a position to give back to the community, Pamela took great interest in charitable organizations. She was a guest speaker at the Atrium Club and the New York Women’s Forum for the American Foundation of Aids Research, where she held a reception which raised money for the foundation. Those who attended were treated to a spring/summer fashion forecast and a discussion of skin care techniques.
She has also worked with the American Red Cross’s H.U.G. program in Greater New York, where she served as Co-Chairperson in the 1990s. She spent her Tuesdays counseling mothers who gave birth in the City’s Metropolitan Hospital on the importance of immunizing their infants in the Baby Track program. This program kept track of babies and helped at risk mothers find and use the state programs available to them so that they would not abandon their babies. For her work with H.U.G, Pamela honored at a ceremony at West Point.
Pamela was a Red Cross volunteer during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, and received a Red Cross appreciation certificate for her efforts. Her first hand account of the tragedy of 9/11 served as inspiration for her art.
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