2011-3-22- SHREVEPORT市，加州：美国利夫波特市的Hannah Pham本是名健康活泼的孩子，但是去年的一周永远改变了她的生活。
　　她的老师Claudia Park说：“她周五下午离开学校，周一就在医院里了，她不能走路了。”
　　医生诊断她患了横贯性脊髓炎，全球有100万人患此病。她从此腰部以下瘫痪。她所在的一年级教室大多数在一层楼，她的叔叔一周来学校几次帮她换教室。
　　Hannah说：“叔叔会帮我去楼上的图书馆和电脑房。”
　　Claudia Park说：“Hannah想独立，可她做不到，家人必须经常来帮他。”
　　2至8年级的教室在楼上，教学楼没有电梯。学校要么劝Hannah转学，要么就为她做点什么。
　　Park说：“她承受了很多，我们都不想让她离开。”
　　学校安电梯需要154000美元，学校今年全部拍卖所得费用将用于电梯安装。学生们踊跃捐款，5年级的Noah Crofton捐了400美元，说这是他应该做的，“我们应该帮助她。”
　　Park说：“Hannah不希望永远坐在轮椅上，她希望自己能站起来，他坚信这点。”
　　Hannah希望以后不需要电梯的帮助，不过她现在很期待电梯，“坐电梯上楼比叔叔帮我更容易。”
　　钱现在还没攒够，不过学校不会放弃，就像Hannah一样。学校计划在夏天安装电梯。

School works to get elevator for handicapped student

　　SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) – Hannah Pham was healthy and active child, until one short weekend last year changed her life forever.
　　"She left school on a Friday afternoon... By Monday she was in the hospital, and she hasn't walked since," said her teacher Claudia Park.
　　Doctors diagnosed Hannah with a neurological disorder called Transverse Myelitis, which only affects one in a million people. It left her paralyzed from the waist down. As a 1st grader, most of Hannah's classes are downstairs, but a few times a week her uncle has to come to school to carry her to enrichment classes.
　　"When I have to go to the library and to the computers," said Hannah.
　　"She wants to be independent and that's sending a message to her that you're not, and the other thing is how hard it is for the family. Someone leaves a job to come and do that," said Park.
　　2nd-8th grade classes are held upstairs, but there's no elevator in the building, which left the school with two options.  They had to either ask Hannah's family to leave next year or do something about it.
　　"Enough has happened to her. To have to leave her school family, and we do think of ourselves as a family here, to me would be another devastating blow," said Park.
　　The school needs to raise $154,000 to put an elevator.  All the proceeds from the school's annual auction went to the elevator fund.  Elementary school kids emptied their piggy banks, and 5th grader Noah Crofton decided to donate all $400 of his birthday money. He said it was just the right thing to do.
　　"We need to donate this much money and we're taking little steps," said Crofton.
　　The school has $38,000, but they still have a long way to go. St. John's is a private school, so they do not get any money from the state to help put in the elevator.
　　
　　"We do a lot of drawing and illustrating.  She has never, not one time, illustrated herself in a wheelchair, although her friends do.  So I think in her mind  she's going to walk again.  She sees herself as a walking child," said Park.
　　Hannah hopes there will come a day when she won't need the elevator, but for now she's very excited to have it.
　　"It will be more easier than my uncle carrying me upstairs," she said.
　　While the amount of money they have to raise can be a little overwhelming, the school says failure is not an option. They will put an elevator in this summer. Hannah has never given up, and neither will they.