Kids to wear pajamas to school for fundraising drive
‘PJs for PJ’ to raise money for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy research
Students from all over Southwest Brooklyn are being asked by a health advocacy group to wear pajamas to school for one day next month and to donate $5 each to help a five-year-old Bay Ridge boy and others like him battle a rare and potentially deadly form of Muscular Dystrophy.
The event, to be held on Dec. 18, is being called “PJs for PJ,” in honor of Pietro Joseph Scarso, who suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a form of Muscular Dystrophy that affects one in 3,600 boys born in the U.S. The disease affects a sufferer’s motor skills and hampers their ability to breathe. Most of the children afflicted with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy wind up in wheelchairs and many die before they reach their 30th birthdays.
But Pietro Joseph Scarso and his loving parents, Dayna and Manni Scarso, are determined to beat the odds.