OGDENSBURG -- Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center’s Ravinder N. Agarwal Renal Center received dialysis comfort bag donations from Heather Sienkiewycz, a salesperson for Thirty One.

Sienkiewycz, with the help of other sponsors, donated comfort bags across Northern New York and Vermont as a mission to brighten someone's day that has not been on the easiest of paths.

Since 2014, Sienkiewycz’s Facebook group, Northern New York Gives Back, has donated 223 comfort bags to dialysis units, cancer treatment centers, members of the military, people with cystic fibrosis, hospitalized children, foster care children, and the elderly, to name a few.

Sienkiewycz’s friend Stephanie Gebo helps spearhead the project. A dialysis patient herself, Gebo honors her father David Gebo, and aunt Marion Young, who were both past dialysis patient at the Agarwal Renal Center.

The Northern New York Gives Back Facebook page is where the group displays photos and asks for donations.