Strangers banded together to send 8-year-old Mathias Pascal and his family to French Polynesia after he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. He's dreamed of visiting the islands since he first saw the Disney film 'Moana.'
Ever since the movie"Moana" first hit theaters, 8-year-old Mathias Pascal from Cuxac-d'Aude, France, has dreamed of visiting the land of"Vaiana" -- the name for the ebony-haired heroine of the 2016 Disney blockbuster in its French release.
After noticing that Mathias -- an otherwise sporty and active 7-year-old at the time, who loved swimming in the pool and the Mediterranean Sea near their home -- was having mobility issues, the couple, relatively unworried at first, took him to the doctor. Famous for luring honeymooners with their hearts set on staying in an overwater bungalow someplace such as Bora Bora, the destination is an extraordinary one -- and one that tends to come with an extraordinary price tag, too.
"Narbonne is a small city of 50,000 inhabitants where everyone knows each other," Perez said in an email to CNN."After we heard the news of a 8-year-old boy who was sick, it was natural for our association to come to the family's aid." La Bande de Copains organized a Polynesian soirée in September in Coursan, France, to raise money for the trip.It was enough to send Mathias, his parents, his older brother, Maxime, and a cousin from the South of France to the South Pacific for a month to immerse the boy in the land of his heroine.
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