Madison Students Double Fundraising Goal to Help Learning Disability Pupil

By Jack Kramer, Correspondent

MADISON, CT – Four Madison high school students who started a group project to raise scholarship money for someone with a diagnosed learning disability have more than doubled their initial $1,000 goal.

The four students have a gofundme page.

They have raised more than $2,100 with more than 60 different donations. Their efforts have been written about not only on Madison Patch but covered by other news media in the state.

The students are Lily Arida, Sophie Cohen, Elizabeth McCann, and Hannah Bridge. This is what the four say about their project.

“For a group project we were supposed to look at the history of people with learning differences and how they have been discriminated against in the past. We decided to focus on how that has affected their education over the years.

“As a group we decided to take it a step further and start a go fund me page to raise money to start a scholarship for someone within our community to get a little extra help to go to college.

“This scholarship will be for a Daniel Hand senior graduating in 2017. In order to qualify for this scholarship the student must have a diagnosed learning disability. (Including, but certainly not limited to: ADHD, Bipolar, Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Autism, OCD, etc.) Any amount will help. Thank you!”

Their teacher, Ashley Joiner, has this to say about the students’ efforts.

“The rest of the class cheers as we put the new total on the screen in the classroom. Everyone is so excited and can’t believe that this has been such a success.”

Joiner said: “My students now know that they can make a difference and have an impact on change and on peoples’ lives.”

Image via GoFundMe.com