JAKKS Pacific Companions with Imua Household Providers to Open Play Imua Retailer for Maui Wildfire Victims

JAKKS Pacific has partnered with Imua Household Providers, a nonprofit group, to launch Play Imua, a brand new toy retailer in response to the wildfires which have devastated communities throughout Maui, Hawaii. 

The collaboration is designed to supply help and a highway to restoration for youthful victims of the fires. 

The merchandise at Play Imua can be free to kids and households who’ve been impacted by the fires. Children will have the ability to discover the shop and select an merchandise or toy. Mother and father can save their revenue for meals, shelter, and different important objects, whereas kids can nonetheless be supplied with toys, birthday items, baby-care merchandise, or a brand new costume for Halloween. 

Imua Household Providers has a legacy courting again to 1947, and has provided important medical therapies and play-based actions all through many difficult occasions, together with the polio period and the coronavirus pandemic. Via this partnership with JAKKS Pacific, the group goals to deal with childhood trauma, and supply medical experience, training and assets, and hope and pleasure. 

“Whereas not all kids bear traumatic stress following a harrowing occasion, we firmly imagine within the potential for restoration,” says Dean Wong, Government Director at Imua Household Providers. “With the right help and care, many kids can adapt and conquer such experiences. None of this work could be doable with out the generosity of companies like JAKKS Pacific and the Maui Harbor Retailers in Maalaea. JAKKS Pacific promptly pledged a 40-foot container of toys inside days of studying concerning the nationwide tragedy.”

Jakks Pacific can also be donating 5,000 costumes from its costume division, Disguise. Different donors embrace athletic attire producer, Lolë, Subsequent Degree Attire, Attindas Hygiene Companions, TGR Logistics, JAS Contract Logistics, and Hecny Group.

“We’re saddened by this tragedy that has devastated the group of Lahaina and hope this gives some assist to the individuals of Maui on this attempting time,” says Stephen Berman, Chairman and CEO of JAKKS Pacific. “It’s exhausting to think about the loss these individuals are experiencing, and we’re honored to associate with Imua Household Providers to inventory this wonderful retailer.”

The shop will open at Maui Harbor Retailers in Maalaea on Sept. 21.