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Classmates honor girl by recording bedtime stories for other ailing kids
http://www.omaha.com/article/20140203/NEWS/140209653/1685#classmates-honor-girl-by-recording-bedtime-stories-for-other-ailing-kids
PUBLISHED MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2014 AT 12:30 AM / UPDATED AT 12:44 AM
By Julie Anderson
When teachers from All Saints School visited Mathilda Gune Idra in the hospital, they always read to her.
Mathilda herself loved to read.
So after the third-grader died last September of complications from a brain tumor, the school hatched a project — not a huge project, but a project from the heart; one intended to pay tribute to their missing schoolmate and comfort other sick kids.
Students read and recorded bedtime stories — about 30 of them — on CDs. The school will deliver them to Children's Hospital & Medical Center to thank the staff for all they did for Mathilda and her family and to provide a diversion for young patients when parents have to step out, or when the patient is just feeling lonely.
FULL story at link.