EVERY pupil at a Grimethorpe school has made a card for a four-year-old boy who has been diagnosed with leukaemia.
Jake Croft started to show signs of being unwell just four weeks before he was diagnosed earlier this month.
He began to lose his appetite, and complained of his tummy hurting. His parents Claire, 29, and Stuart, 37, put his lack of appetite at home down to him starting full time school at Milefield Primary, where he was having a much larger meal at lunchtime.
Since finding out about his illness, Jake has received more than 300 handmade cards from every child at the school.
Grandma Karin McHardy, of Raymond Avenue, Grimethorpe, said: "The support and love has been so overwhelming. There are a lot of good people in this community, a lot of people who care."
Jake has stage four neuroblastoma - a cancerous tumour that develops in nerve tissue, usually just above the kidneys.
"We have been told there is a 30 per cent chance that treatment will work. We just have to keep on praying that our Jakey is in that 30 per cent."
Karin said people in and around Grimethorpe are fund-raising to help Claire and Stuart with the cost of hospital expenses.
Others are raising money to send Jake and his family to Disney Land Florida when he gets better.
** The full story is in the Barnsley Chronicle, dated October 24. **
