National Honor Society hosts a basketball game for charity: Photo of the day 4/30/2015
NHS Basketball team before the charity game
April 30, 2015
On Tuesday, April 27th the National Honor Society hosted a basketball game for charity. It’s one of the few occasions where the score didn’t matter.
The game was between arch-rivals Linganore High School and Oakdale High School, but it wasn’t an ordinary or serious game.
“Everyone who played had fun. It wasn’t a game about skill per se. It was for charity and fun,” said Mrs. Beth Sands, National Honor Society Co-Adviser.
The money from the game went to into the Galloways’ Gofundme account for Bailey’s Buddies, which is a foundation supporting Bailey Marie Galloway, a 5-year-old girl with MLD. MLD is short for metachromatic leukodystrophy. The rare, inherited metabolic storage disorder leaves the body unable to break down certain compounds that, over time, build up and can damage the brain, bones, nervous tissue, and other tissues, according to the National Institutes of Health. This rare disease is treated with chemotherapy treatments, which Bailey has received.
The foundation accepts donations of new stuffed animals which are then tagged with Bailey’s picture, signature, and pledge and are then given to children at Marion General Hospital and Riley Hospital in Indianapolis. This charitable act was Bailey’s own idea.
Thw charity basketball game donated the stuffed animals to the University of MD Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Baltimore for the children in the hospital who don’t have many toys of their own.
To learn more about Bailey’s Buddies or donate to the foundation, you can go to the following links:
