Cerebral Palsy

She has raised more than $3,000 so far and is still counting the final proceeds.

“I'm just ecstatic,” Gerou said of the turnout for her raffle at the Poway street fair on Sunday.

Gerou single-handedly solicited hundreds of businesses for donations for prizes to benefit the nonprofit pet rescue group.

Her efforts were inspired in part by her love of animals and her basset, Abraham Lincoln.

And Gerou, who uses a wheelchair, was motivated to prove her physical limitations did not restrict what she could accomplish.

Jerri Caswell, head of the basset hound group, said that Gerou and her parents, Susan Miles and Robert Gerou, had made a lasting impact on her work, both financially and spiritually.

“I am humbled by this amazing family,” Caswell said.

“This family has instilled such a can-do work ethic in this young lady that she is going to go far.” Gerou plans to attend college next fall and become a zoologist.

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