On Wednesday May 14th, 2008, Bears 4 Kids and 2006 Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Dr. Edmund S. Phelps, and his lovely wife Viviana, distributed 300 bears to visiting school children. The bears were used to demonstrate hospital procedures in order to ease the fear of a hospital visit, and also to teach the young visitors about giving care and comfort to those who are ill. Following this wonderful program, the bears were given as gifts to children who are inpatients at a hospital.