'We also wanted to do the best we could…. Just to provide some special moments for a little girl, so her memories aren’t just hospitals and doctors and [she can] get some great memories of life.”
We don’t want her life to be cancer and being in the hospital. We want her life to be horseback riding lessons and cheerleading and dance class and being wrapped up in love by our community and her family, and, because of you guys and things like this, we’re able to do that.
Students in the Key Club at Oak Forest High School in Oak Forest caught wind of DeVries’s battle and decided the child and her parents, who are alums from the school, would be the beneficiaries of their “Pennies for Patients” fundraiser, according to the Patch. The Key Club established donation boxes outside of classrooms where students could donate.
“We do a competition of which second hour can raise the most money, and so, this year, Miss Galloway’s class, which is standing right here, they dominated everyone,” Key Club leader Gary Andruch told ABC Chicago.“We really bought into the idea that every little bit helps,” one studentWFLD. “So we all we also wanted to do the best we could …. Just to provide some special moments for a little girl, so her memories aren’t just hospitals and doctors and [she can] get some great memories of life.
Erin noted that Maggie would be treated to a shopping spree thanks to the generosity and enthusiasm of the pupils at OFHS, according to WFLD. “So my hope is that we get as many good days as possible with Maggie, and that they’re good days for Maggie; whatever can get us good days for Maggie, where she’s having fun, is all I can hope for,” Erin said, according to ABC Chicago.
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