Edmonton students raise 8K in support of Ben Stelter Fund – Edmonton | 24CA News
Students in Edmonton have fundraised 1000’s of {dollars} in reminiscence of Edmonton Oilers superfan Ben Stelter.
The fundraiser was began by Aariz Mawji, a Grade 8 scholar at Nellie Carlson School in southwest Edmonton’s Mactaggart neighbourhood.
In simply 4 weeks, the Ok-9 faculty raised greater than $8,000 towards the Ben Stelter Fund in help of the Stollery Children’s Hospital. The endeavour was spearheaded by scholar Aariz Mawji, whose dad helped kick off the fund.
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The six-year-old Oilers fan captured hearts throughout North America as he battled glioblastoma, an aggressive type of mind most cancers. He died on Aug. 9, 2022, after preventing the illness for 2 years.
In December, the particular fund was introduced to honour his life and legacy, and to help children like Ben and their households.
The Ben Stelter Fund was kickstarted with $100,000 — donations from Oilers captain Connor McDavid and Edmonton entrepreneur (and Stelter household pal) Ashif Mawji.
The fund has 4 objectives: magical experiences, medical tools for households at dwelling, outcome-based analysis and enterprise philanthropy.
The youthful Mawji stated he needed to honour his younger pal, Ben, together with his personal initiative in school. He stored observe of the rising tally on a college whiteboard.
“It made me feel good. I wrote it many times, but I was really happy to see that was the number we came up with, considering our goal was $1,000.”
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For dad Mike Stelter, seeing the legacy his son has left with different children means so much.
“To see kids raising money for kids is so powerful. It’s going to help them grow into community contributing adults,” he stated.
“It’s going to make them such good people.”
School principal Henry Madsen stated the six-year-old’s affect went past the hockey rink and into lecture rooms throughout Edmonton.
“His enthusiasm, his optimism. In spite of the tragedy, the continued legacy that he leaves and the ability to contribute to society in a broad way [is what made Ben a hero].”
On Friday, Mawji and his principal offered Mike Stelter with a cheque for $8,049.50.
Stelter stated the efforts of Nellie Carlson college students honour his son’s reminiscence.
“I think Ben would love it.”
— With recordsdata from Emily Mertz, Global News
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