More Special Knight News

Just a brief update on fundraising for Emma's Special Knight Project.  Emma's mom, Heather, spoke with the principal of our school about raising funds.  Basically, each school determines the amount of fundraisers they can have during a given school year.  They don't want to constantly bombard the parents with more and more fundraisers.  I understand this, of course, as a parent.  Unfortunately, our school already has all of it's allotted fundraisers accounted for, so we are unable to raise any more money as a school.  However we are able to continue to raise money privately.  So that is what we are doing.

Heather also spoke with a lady from Be an Angel last week and she seems very eager to help us.  Hopefully that will get us to where we need to be.

The good news is that we have already raised over $5,000.  I am blown away by that amount and by the generosity of everyone who has supported us.  You all will never truly know how much it means to us.  Tommy, John Thomas and I want to say Thank you, Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.  And I know that Heather and Emma echo that sentiment.

Because we cannot fundraise at school, it is so very important that we continue to get the word out.  The wider we share this project, the better chance we have to meet our goal.  When you go to the link, Heather has added some updates and there is even a picture in the gallery of the structure we are trying to purchase.  I think it's a great picture of how much fun it can be.  And just in case that picture isn't enough, here is a video of a group of kids enjoying their time on it.

This project means so much to John, Emma and the rest of the Special Buddies at Shafer.  I cannot even describe the connection each of the buddies have made.  So to be able to do something so much fun like this together, would be awesome.  And here is the cool thing.  We have 19 life skills kids and each kid has 2 buddies.  So that is about 57 total kids that are involved in the program.  However, there are even more kids that would have loved to be a Special Buddy, but we just didn't have the space for them.  So having playground equipment they can all play on together is a way for those other kids to spend time with our life skills kids and will help bring the entire school even closer together.

Thank you again for your support, and please help us to spread the word far and wide.


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