Antwahn on his way

19-year-old Antwahn Boyce-Vaughan and his mother, Tonia Boyce, got 25,000 reasons to smile when they received a donation to help Antwahn get back on his feet again after an illness left him unable to walk for the past two years.

This morning, the family received a cheque for $25,000 from the Capital Kids Trust and the Amarone Charitable Trust. The funds will go towards the purchase of a prosthesis and wheelchair for Antwahn who was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer which tends to affect teenage boys. 

In thanking the charities for the donation Principal of the Schoolhouse for Special Needs Inc. where Antwahn is a student, Yasmin Vlahakis, praised Antwahn’s mother for her resilience when faced with the news of her son’s health condition. “Tonia really deserves some praise because she has been a true champion for her child. She did not just take a diagnosis and say, ‘Okay, well this is what we have been told and that’s it’. She read, researched and questioned everything and everyone, and Antwahn is standing here because of her and his doctors, and we are happy to have him back at school.”