NDSU grad student runs for a family living in a landfill
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - An NDSU Grad Student is not only training for an upcoming marathon in Minnesota, but she is running for a special family hundreds of miles from here. Through North Dakota's "God's Child Project," Angela Mathers has worked in villages throughout Guatemala. It is who she met on her last visit that has her running and raising more than just money.By: Kevin Wallevand, WDAY
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Angela Mathers is racking up the miles in preparation for the Lake Wobegon Trail Marathon in west central Minnesota in May, but this NDSU sociology grad student, who will soon take an entire class to Guatemala, is running for a family. The four children of a single mother that she met on a mission there. The 11, 10 and 7-year old were discovered in a dump.
“Living in a landfill collecting plastic bottles and make a dollar a day for a family.”
Angela, thru her marathon fund raiser, hopes to raise money to get this family out of the dump, off the streets and somewhere safe.
“We want them out of the landfill and give them shelter so they can flourish as a family.”
Does she think of these faces while running the roads of Fargo?
“I do all the time, all the time.”
And while she wishes she could be here for Fargo's Marathon, Angela will be back in Guatemala with NDSU students, hopefully planning the biggest extreme home and life makeover ever.
Angela hopes to raise four thousand dollars to buy the land and a 12 by 14 foot house for the four of them.
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