Chatham teen walking to Windsor for children’s hospital in London
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A teenager from Chatham will be walking to Windsor on Sunday to raise money for the London Children’s Hospital.
A teenager from Chatham will be walking to Windsor on Sunday to raise money for the London Children’s Hospital.
Thirteen-year-old Joshua Taylor and his mom, Sandra Glover, plan to leave Chatham-Kent near Prairie Siding by 5 a.m.
“We started it right after my brother got his appendix taken out,” Taylor says, explaining his family’s connection to the hospital. “My sister when she was a lot younger, when she was firstborn, she had to go to the hospital and they kind of saved her life. So I felt like I should give them back what they gave me because I wouldn't have a sister and my brother.”
Ten years ago, Taylor’s sister spent two months in London with haemophilus influenza and just last month his baby brother needed emergency surgery.
“Mom posted something on Facebook and it went huge and then it got bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and then we posted a website and then it got really, really big,” Taylor notes.
The fundraiser is part of an effort called the Kingdom Project at George P. Vanier Catholic School where students are given $25 to multiply for a good cause of their choosing.
Grade eight teacher Cathy Bechard says she’s impressed with what students have done so far, encouraged students want to make a positive change.
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