12-year-old Olivia Golembiewski is a happy girl again thanks to a wheelchair and a concerned neighbor. Olivia has cerebral palsy and epilepsy and needs a wheelchair to get around school.
This morning, her father put her specially made chair outside their Wissonoming home. Just a few minutes passed before he carried his daughter out to catch the school bus and the chair was gone.
Seconds after Action News at 6 aired Olivia's story, generous viewers called in offering to donate wheelchairs. One of them, Joan Heim, lives a few houses away from Olivia. She had a spare wheelchair she couldn't wait to give to the girl.
As Action News was interviewing Olivia's father Wednesday night, an employee of a nearby business, Unlimited Total Home Improvements, showed up with a $300 check to help the family.
"It's a shame, I drive by here every day and I see the hardship; it's beautiful, the inspiration people are doing," Richard Young of Unlimited Total Home Improvements said.
Because of the outpouring of support, Olivia will be able to attend her brother's high school graduation tomorrow.
To read the full story, please go to: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8192793&hpt=us_bn4
Source: 6abc.com
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