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Student initiative raises money for MUHC
Yanni Metrakos is a take-charge kind of guy.
A Grade 7 student at Selwyn House School, Yanni is the son of Dr. Peter Metrakos, Division Chief of the Multi-Organ Transplant Team at the McGill University Health Centre. For the second year in a row, Yanni has donated money to Celebration of Life, an organization that raises funds to purchase patient-care equipment for the hospital’s transplant wards.
On his last birthday Yanni asked his friends and family to make donations to Celebration of Life, in lieu of gifts. He raised $1,050 for the cause.
“This year I decided I wanted to get my school involved, too,” he says.
Acting on his own initiative, Yanni purchased chocolate eggs and an Easter gift basket and held a raffle for the gift basket and a guess-the-number-of-eggs-in-the-jar contest at school. With classmates Thomas Woodfine-MacPherson, Adam Borshan, Ricky Lopez, and Brendon Ribeiro-Dorrington helping out, his project raises $646 for the Foundation.
On April 10, Yanni attended the annual dinner-dance of the Celebration of Life Foundation, which benefits the Organ Transplant Patients’ Committee of the Royal Victoria Hospital, and presented his donation to Rosa Shields, a multi-organ transplant recipient who founded Celebration of Life 12 years ago.
