![Samantha Disimone 1-year-old Vito DiSimone holds a card that came with the special hospital gown he was given during a stay at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York on Jan. 11, 2024. The gown was made by two New Jersey sisters, Giuliana and Audrina Demma, who have sewn and donated 1,800 brightly-colored and kid-themed hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states and Uganda since 2021. (Samantha DiSimone)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/089f51ad82344c21a81b1b27197cc567/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
1-year-old Vito DiSimone holds a card that came with the special hospital gown he was given during a stay at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York on Jan. 11, 2024. The gown was made by two New Jersey sisters, Giuliana and Audrina Demma, who have sewn and donated 1,800 brightly-colored and kid-themed hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states and Uganda since 2021. (Samantha DiSimone)
![Wayne Parry Giuliana Demma, left, and her sister Audrina, right, sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/a5906220450045349d66963e94ab6b38/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Giuliana Demma, left, and her sister Audrina, right, sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Wayne Parry Audrina Demma sews a pediatric hospital gown in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. She and her sister Giuliana have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/43d1038afae04bc7a11908e5ac429315/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Audrina Demma sews a pediatric hospital gown in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. She and her sister Giuliana have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Wayne Parry Audrina Demma, left, and her sister Giuliana hug in the basement at the sewing station of their Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/bccec918acf445aebf8159206e20edaa/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Audrina Demma, left, and her sister Giuliana hug in the basement at the sewing station of their Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Wayne Parry Giuliana Demma irons a pediatric hospital gown she had just sewn the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Giuliana and her sister Audrina have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/e0efbcce0a6a47b98ea64c295b30ee17/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Giuliana Demma irons a pediatric hospital gown she had just sewn the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Giuliana and her sister Audrina have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Wayne Parry Audrina Demma holds a pillow she sewed in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Audrina and her sister Giuliana have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/6b8ccdfbdcc145b49f00ee8385837ce4/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Audrina Demma holds a pillow she sewed in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Audrina and her sister Giuliana have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Melissa Demma Giada Demma, 1-year-old, sits in a pediatric hospital bed at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York in August 2017. Seeing the child wearing a drab hospital issued-gown on a different date helped inspired Giada’s cousin Guiliana Demma to learn to sew and make brightly colored, kid-themed hospital gowns for hospitalized children. Since 2021, Giuliana Demma and her sister Audrina have made and donated 1,800 hospital gowns and several hundred kid-sixed pillows to children in hospitals in 36 states and Uganda. (Melissa Demma via AP)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/e95939f83b9b4833ae3d205dd82ede63/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Giada Demma, 1-year-old, sits in a pediatric hospital bed at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York in August 2017. Seeing the child wearing a drab hospital issued-gown on a different date helped inspired Giada’s cousin Guiliana Demma to learn to sew and make brightly colored, kid-themed hospital gowns for hospitalized children. Since 2021, Giuliana Demma and her sister Audrina have made and donated 1,800 hospital gowns and several hundred kid-sixed pillows to children in hospitals in 36 states and Uganda. (Melissa Demma via AP)
![Wayne Parry Giuliana Demma sews a pediatric hospital gown in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Giuliana and her sister Audrina have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/1f40cc9434e6428cbb67ea6aec0df7e1/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Giuliana Demma sews a pediatric hospital gown in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Giuliana and her sister Audrina have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Melissa Demma Giada Demma, 1-year-old, sits in a pediatric hospital bed at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York on Oct. 17, 2017, the last day she was scheduled to undergo chemotherapy for cancer. Her family had a seamstress make the Disney hospital gown Giada is wearing. But seeing the child wearing a drab hospital issued-gown on a different date helped inspired Giada’s cousin Guiliana Demma to learn to sew and make brightly colored, kid-themed hospital gowns for hospitalized children. Since 2021, Giuliana Demma and her sister Audrina have made and donated 1,800 hospital gowns and several hundred kid-sixed pillows to children in hospitals in 36 states and Uganda. (Melissa Demma via AP)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/7d1c67d10f3b4ac6b1f5951855475d6c/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Giada Demma, 1-year-old, sits in a pediatric hospital bed at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York on Oct. 17, 2017, the last day she was scheduled to undergo chemotherapy for cancer. Her family had a seamstress make the Disney hospital gown Giada is wearing. But seeing the child wearing a drab hospital issued-gown on a different date helped inspired Giada’s cousin Guiliana Demma to learn to sew and make brightly colored, kid-themed hospital gowns for hospitalized children. Since 2021, Giuliana Demma and her sister Audrina have made and donated 1,800 hospital gowns and several hundred kid-sixed pillows to children in hospitals in 36 states and Uganda. (Melissa Demma via AP)
![Wayne Parry Audrina Demma sews a pediatric hospital gown in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Audrina and her sister Giuliana have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/c3948bb9f0d848d68cca7ee15af149fc/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Audrina Demma sews a pediatric hospital gown in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Audrina and her sister Giuliana have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Wayne Parry Giuliana Demma holds a pediatric hospital gown she had sewn in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Giuliana and her sister Audrina have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/e959bfb7f07e4e21ae968ee329199f79/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Giuliana Demma holds a pediatric hospital gown she had sewn in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Giuliana and her sister Audrina have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Wayne Parry Giuliana Demma, left, and her sister Audrina sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/8b418814d21143a4a98b9d4f9d282332/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Giuliana Demma, left, and her sister Audrina sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Wayne Parry Giuliana Demma holds a pediatric hospital gown she had just finished sewing in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. She and her sister Audrina have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/0051bf77e3814eacbb269f5eb5897a36/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Giuliana Demma holds a pediatric hospital gown she had just finished sewing in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. She and her sister Audrina have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Wayne Parry Giuliana Demma, left, and her sister Audrina, right, sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/5ee446e73dce4746a754aeedb1c880ec/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Giuliana Demma, left, and her sister Audrina, right, sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Amy Smith Nurse Ellen Reynolds of Children’s Surgery International gives a lollipop to patient Ategeka, whose last name they are keeping confidential to protect his privacy, in a bed at Holy Innocents Children's Hospital in Mbarara, Uganda on Feb. 2, 2024. Ategeka is wearing a Harry Potter-themed gown made by Giuliana Demma, a New Jersey girl who, with her sister Audrina, have sewn and donated 1,800 brightly colored, kid-themed hospital gowns to sick children across the U.S. and Africa. (Amy Smith/Children's Surgery International via AP)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/db0d9491879e471e81300731d2d8dd7f/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Nurse Ellen Reynolds of Children’s Surgery International gives a lollipop to patient Ategeka, whose last name they are keeping confidential to protect his privacy, in a bed at Holy Innocents Children's Hospital in Mbarara, Uganda on Feb. 2, 2024. Ategeka is wearing a Harry Potter-themed gown made by Giuliana Demma, a New Jersey girl who, with her sister Audrina, have sewn and donated 1,800 brightly colored, kid-themed hospital gowns to sick children across the U.S. and Africa. (Amy Smith/Children's Surgery International via AP)
![Wayne Parry Audrina Demma sews a pediatric hospital gown in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Giuliana and Audrina Demma have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/efc2f66515294fc29c879a3511930d7a/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Audrina Demma sews a pediatric hospital gown in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Giuliana and Audrina Demma have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Wayne Parry Giuliana Demma, left, and her sister Audrina, right, sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of their Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/46b7988929e545eea2a15608d534e007/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Giuliana Demma, left, and her sister Audrina, right, sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of their Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
![Wayne Parry Giuliana Demma holds a pediatric hospital gown she had just finished sewing in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Giuliana and her sister Audrina have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/9a6360dfd15c4c949ee57c64f9502b81/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Giuliana Demma holds a pediatric hospital gown she had just finished sewing in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. Giuliana and her sister Audrina have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states plus Africa. Giuliana was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalized with brain cancer in 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)