On Sunday, August 29, 2010 the newly
established Cookies for Ava Fund had their first bake sale at
Knollwood Church in Mobile, AL. All of the proceeds
were
donated to FSMA, and
the Alabama chapter collected a total of $700! Ava Renee
Johnson was born on February 26, 2009 to Ebony and Corneilus
Johnson, and was diagnosed with SMA Type I at five months old. One
evening at the end of June, Ava was sent to the hospital when she
stopped breathing. She spent almost two months in the local
children’s hospital and went through two surgeries to get a trach
and g tube installed. To celebrate her homecoming and SMA awareness
mont h,
they decided to have the bake sale in her honor to help raise funds
for Families of SMA. The family felt so supported through this
whole ordeal that they wanted to give back to FSMA. |