Lansing principal crowdfunding mother's $200K brain surgery at U of M
That's what Ariel Rodriguez-Pena's mother, Miriam Pena-Osorio, used to tell him growing up in Cuba. Now, he's hoping the world hears that advice. Rodriguez-Pena is raising $100,000 for his mother, who lives in Cuba, to have a brain tumor removed at University of Michigan hospital. That's on top of the $100,000 he's already raised himself — part of applying for his mother's humanitarian parole, which required him to prove he can support her treatment. "She has been bound to a wheelchair since the end of November," said Rodriguez-Pena, the principal at Lansing's Gardner International...
Source: lansingstatejournal.com