Boston Medical Center ’s “tiny but mighty” neonatal intensive care unit is getting festive this Halloween thanks to help from a national non-profit.

Project Sweet Peas is a volunteer-run non-profit organization with 15 chapters across the country. It provides support to families of premature or sick infants in the NICU, as well those impacted by pregnancy or infant loss.

The organization’s Southern New England chapter provides support, care packages, and donations to around 12 hospitals in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, the chapter’s division coordinator Peg Ricardo told Boston.com in an interview.

For Halloween, the organization has specific volunteers – affectionately called “Halloween magic-makers,” Ricardo said – that create hundreds of costumes year round. Becaus

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