Naugatuck High School DECA will be hosting an all night Walk-a-Thon for student Avery Moore starting Saturday, September 29 at 7 pm and ending Sunday morning at 7 am at Naugatuck High School.

Back on August 1, Avery, whose father is a Naugatuck firefighter and whose mother is a teacher at NPS, was involved in a car accident that left his vertebrae broken and bone fragments went into his spinal cord. He was unable to move from the neck down.

He has undergone surgery to fix the vertebrae and remove the fragments from his spinal cord and recovered at Stony Brook ICU in New York before being transferred back to Connecticut for rehabilitation.

The funds will cost the family a lot of money. Several fundraisers have been organized to help the Moore family pay the medical bills.

“Nothing can take away their pain, but we can ease their pain,” a post on the Naugatuck Firefighters Union Facebook page prior to the fundraiser pasta dinner they held for Avery in late August.

“I believe people should attend the Walk-a-Thon in order to help out Avery and his family with the medical bills. All the money goes directly to the Moore family so we get to help them out. Not only do you get to help them, you also get to have a good time,” said one of the organizers, Alejandro Rangel, a senior at Naugatuck High School.

A GoFundMe page, created by his Aunt, has raised $35,773 as of September 28.

Naugatuck DECA will be hosting an all night Walk-a-Thon under the direction of Ms. Chelsea Maza, on Saturday September 29. All proceeds from this event will go directly to Avery’s medical funding.

The Walk-a-Thon will be held at Naugatuck High School. Activities such as, zumba, soccer, flag football, wiffle ball, kickball and watching movies, will be going on in the gymnasium and on the track field throughout the night.

Registration is $10 for students and $15 for adults. The forms for registration can be found in Naugatuck High School’s main office.