Friday, January 7, 2011

A Reluctant Hero: High School Football Player Is Big Brother to Boy with Disability


Feel-good story of the week from ABC World News about an amazing high school student helping a child with special needs and his family.

MELROSE, Mass. -- His schedule is jam-packed with classes and homework and football practice. But for one Massachusetts high school senior, there is a special place each night for an 8-year-old little boy named Sam.
Rudy Favard, a student at Malden Catholic High School, accepted his school nurse's request to meet with an area family three to four nights a week to carry their severely disabled son up the stairs to his bedroom; a task the family could no longer handle.
"I wanted to help," Rudy, 17, said. "I didn't think it was a big deal." What he found was a family that welcomed him as one of their own.

No comments:

Post a Comment