A group of students who survived a shooting at their high school last year recently traveled more than 1,000 miles to Uvalde, Texas, to help bring joy to students there who survived a mass shooting at their elementary school in May.
Students from Michigan's Oxford High School played games such as soccer and limbo and did art projects including making tie-dyed t-shirts withThanksgiving
The playday was an important opportunity for the shooting survivors to be kids again, according to Gladys Gonzalez, whose daughter Caitlyne hid in a classroom across the hall from where the shooting took place.," adding that Caitlyne has struggled with anxiety and depression and has had difficulty sleeping since the shooting.
"I have found so much comfort in meeting other survivors and being able to talk to them," Touray told"GMA.""So that's what kind of sparked this event." "It's to try to remember what it was like to be normal kids back when, just because they've lost so much so young," she said, adding,"I'm just hoping they take away kind of like a big brother, big sister type of vibe, hopefully they can reach out to me on FaceTime and have a big sister who is going through the same thing."PHOTO: Zoe Touray, center, interacts with attendees at the Survivors United Playday in Uvalde, Texas, on Nov. 19, 2022.
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