Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney donate £20,000 to girl with rare form of brain cancer

msn.com:

Rob McElhenney have made a generous donation to a young girl living with brain cancer. The Hollywood pair, who bought Wrexham FC in 2021, each pledged £10,000 to help fund a bid by the family of four-year-old Aria Hodgkiss to raise money for an alternative treatment to help extend her life.

They also donated £10,000 to the Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Society earlier this year, and gifted Wembley cup final tickets to a former flayer living with dementia.

Their donations took the fund more than £3,000 over its £60,000 target. Aria Hodgkiss was diagnosed with an aggressive tumour last year, and her Wrexham supporting family were trying to raise £60,000 to treat diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) – a life-threatening tumour in her brain stem.

Around 40 children each year are diagnosed with DIPG, but only 1% of those survive more than five years. Most children with the tumour are given around nine months to live.