Mantua – Recently at Crestwood Intermediate School, 4th grade Girl Scout Junior Troops #243, #533 & #442 sold homemade bracelets to fellow students to support classmate Mathieu Arotin. Mathieu has a disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy type 2 (SMA type 2). Due to this disease, Mathieu is confined to a power wheelchair. The wheelchair gives him the ability to play with his friends, go to school, travel around his home, and go to his many doctor appointments. Mathieu’s family is in need of a wheelchair-accessible van in which he can take his chair to and from these places. The Girl Scouts, along with a few other friends of Mathieu’s who sold a different variety of homemade bracelets, made over 1,000 bracelets and raised a total of $730 to put towards the cost of a van. Mathieu was given his big check on the last day of school – needless to say, he was all smiles! Thank you CIS students, staff, anonymous donors and Crestwood families for all your generosity!
More fundraising for Mathieu will continue this fall with a school-wide talent show in November.
