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Community rallies behind 7-year-old in need of heart transplant
By Daniella Genovese
Paraprofessional at Johnston Elementary School, Makinzie Corley, and 7-year-old Lamere Johnson.
After Lamere Johnson found out that he needed a heart transplant in the midst of the
COVID-19 pandemic, his elementary school helped raise funds to make sure the surgery was possible.
The effort has been dubbed Hearts for Lamere.
However, the 7-year-old from Johnston,
South Carolina, didn t just receive an outpouring of support from his local community. Within days, donations all around the country started to roll in to make sure he would be in line for a new heart when there was a match waiting for him, Makinzie Corley, a paraprofessional at Johnston Elementary School who has been leading the initiative,