School is a place for students to learn and grow, but for a fifth grader in Dallas ISD, school is much more than that, it helped save his life.
is a time for students to escape into another world. For fifth-grader Mathias Munante, it's a return to normalcy.Munante and his family moved from South America to Dallas during the pandemic, in part, to get him help to fight cancer.
"A lot of our newcomers come to school with nothing. They're here to work and just survive," Anne Frank Elementary Community Liaison Melissa Martinez said. In Munante's case, it was literally about survival. Martinez got to work, helping connect the family with community and health resources. "I realized that the family had gone through a lot of mishaps and we had to carry the ball for them at times and actually drive them to medical appointments," Martinez said."You know timing is everything with his condition, even death, so something so simple as informing these families of our resources and caring as a human and as a mom...you know, the worst could have happened.
Martinez helped the family navigate through the system and get emergency Medicaid, which allowed Munante to have surgery to remove the tumor in his brain, followed by chemotherapy. Today he is in remission.
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