Fourteen-year-old Sophia Christensen was on a good-deed streak when doctors discovered she had leukemia in July.
She had won the Presidential Gold Service Award two years in a row for volunteering more than 1,000 hours to her community. She had walked and raised money for cancer patients.
So when Urban Floor (City of Industry, Calif.) got wind of her diagnosis, and the financial hardship accompanying it, they felt an urge to give back, too.
The company put together a fundraising event and donated $11,521 to the Christensen family.
“It’s been obviously a very challenging thing for her family and on top of that, it’s been an extreme financial burden as well,” Urban Floor’s Jason Ficarra said at the raffle, which was recorded and posted on the company’s Facebook page. “So we wanted to help out the family and do a fundraiser, and everybody was very gracious.”
