Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Empty hands, full hearts

One of our black belts had a serious injury occur on the job as a police officer in the Atlanta area. While on duty, he was hit by a truck, resulting in a broken neck and back, among other things. It's been about a year and he's improving but he suffers from vertigo and short term memory loss. In the meantime, the county has dropped his family from medical insurance.
Hearing that, one of the guys contacted me and we started fundraising to help him out during a difficult time. The end result was that our affiliates raised about $1500. The Chicago group was very aggressive in this and raised $1100 of that through raffles and so on.
I want to thank everyone who contributed, and Mike Mavity in Atlanta for handling the logistics of getting the money to our guy. And to the Chicago boys - you guys are great! Thanks.

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