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The Importance Of Central's Dance Marathon

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Six families come to Central College and spend the day interacting and playing with its students. They do all of this at The Big Event, put on by Central’s Dance Marathon team. Katlyn Wells, one of Centrals Dance Marathon’s team leaders says, “The Big Event this year we held in Graham Annex and we have probably, by the time we had all the students there I want to say there were probably somewhere between 40 and 50 dancers. We had six families and five our kiddo show up and it was a day filled with music, dancing, we had some different in structures come in And and teach different styles of dancing, lots of food, lots of activities, coloring and playing baseball with the kids” (personal communication, April 13, 2017). These students are throwing this event to get to know and celebrate the children and families the have dedicated their time and effort raising money and awareness for (K. Wells). Dance …show more content…

Dance Marathon right now is able to help everyone in ten of those children (Dance Marathon, 2017). Although this is a great achievement there is always more that can be done. Dance marathon can never have enough money and help. Kaitlyn says “The money is always going to the kids. There can never be enough money to help these kids and their families” (K. Wells, personal communication, April 13, 2017). Dance marathon pays for many expenses other than hospital expenses. One of the big things families worry about is how they are going to pay for hotels while their child is in the hospital for weeks at a time. Dance Marathon will pay for the hotel stays. They also help with little things such as providing families money for vending machines to snack on throughout the day. Doing this done for families, “provides so much for those families and gives them so much less to worry about so they can focus on their sick child and focus on their kid's fight” (K. Wells, personal communication, April 13,

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