Atlanta restaurants rally to save nonprofit aiding young cancer patients [Video]

ATLANTA – When some Atlanta Midtown restaurants found out a nearby nonprofit which helps kids with cancer might close their doors, they immediately worked to raise money to keep them going.

Christopher’s Haven provides furnished apartments for up to four families undergoing pediatric cancer care.

One of those kids is 2-and-a-half-year-old Mazie. She and her family are from New Zealand and will be in Atlanta for six-and-a-half weeks while she gets treatment at the Emory Proton Therapy Center in Midtown for a brain tumor.

“Homely too, when we’ve left our family at home, and we had to come over to the other side of the world for treatment, it’s just been like home. For us it’s awesome,” Mazie’s mom, Haley Dundass said.

The organization started in Atlanta in 2021, but its future is at risk after losing funding from a donor.

“You kind of have to roll with the punches. It’s kind …