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Barry White
After black Friday and the scenes of greed and violence its nice to hear we can still have faith in humanity.
The whole community rallied together and helped.
quote "Builders, plumbers, electricians and decorators have given up their weekends or done extra shifts free of charge to rebuild a ramshackle house for Aidan Jackowiak, his brother and their parents.As news spread of the astonishing effort, complete strangers who had never met Aidan’s family began volunteering to paint the walls or help clear rubbish away.
Firms have donated everything from carpets and flooring worth £3,000 to the kitchen sink.
Aidan, who will be four on Boxing Day, has chronic ill health that initially left 12 doctors in three hospitals unable to give an accurate diagnosis.
At one point it was even feared he had the same condition as Joseph Merrick, who was known as the Elephant Man.
Doctors at hospitals in Newcastle upon Tyne, London and Boston, in the US, are now agreed that he has Cloves Syndrome, a condition so rare that there are only 150 victims in the world"
full story here The house that love built: Entire town pitches in to build disabled boy new home | UK | News | Daily Express
The whole community rallied together and helped.
quote "Builders, plumbers, electricians and decorators have given up their weekends or done extra shifts free of charge to rebuild a ramshackle house for Aidan Jackowiak, his brother and their parents.As news spread of the astonishing effort, complete strangers who had never met Aidan’s family began volunteering to paint the walls or help clear rubbish away.
Firms have donated everything from carpets and flooring worth £3,000 to the kitchen sink.
Aidan, who will be four on Boxing Day, has chronic ill health that initially left 12 doctors in three hospitals unable to give an accurate diagnosis.
At one point it was even feared he had the same condition as Joseph Merrick, who was known as the Elephant Man.
Doctors at hospitals in Newcastle upon Tyne, London and Boston, in the US, are now agreed that he has Cloves Syndrome, a condition so rare that there are only 150 victims in the world"
full story here The house that love built: Entire town pitches in to build disabled boy new home | UK | News | Daily Express
