Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Mount Olive Inmates Raise Money For Leukemia Patient

  • {Morgantown, West Virginia}...Amy Chandler of Louisa, Kentucky, the mother of  6 year old Mailyn, a leukemia patient,  says she was shocked to learn the strangers behind a care package for her daughter and a $1,029 check are inmates at the Mount Olive Correctional Complex, a West Virginia prison. Chandler says the inmates raised money for her daughter after they saw a TV report on her illness and the struggle to find a bone marrow donor. Substance abuse counselor Cecilia Matheney says the prisoners, who earn an average of $65 a month, advertised their fundraiser then sat in the rain for two days taking donations. The Chandlers have spent much of the past 18 months at a Huntington hospital.