A Broward County company is donating $60,000 to the victim’s fund after the mass shooting inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Hanna Guttentag, a junior who left school early that day after feeling sick, it one of the teens at the helm of the scompany. Guttentag says her company’s swag-driven merchandise like high school-themed bracelets and spirit bands have never sold in such big quantities as now.
“Bracelets wise, we’ve probably sold 6,000,” said Guttentag – who along with 16-year-old Stacy Gringauz and 14-year-old Sofia Rothenberg, started the company called Three Heart Strings about three years ago.
Sales have always gone to charity.
“We pick different charities to donate to each month,” said Rothenberg. “[The shooting] is so close to all three of us and so close to our town because our town is so small,” said Rothenberg, an 8th grader at Westglades Middle School located just a short walk from Douglas’ campus.
The Parkland teenagers are now dedicating all of their sales to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Victim’s Fund. The work they’ve put in to making Eagle-themed bracelets with square beads that read MSD has been met with a big response. After posting the bracelets on social media, they say their posts went viral – earning them more than $60,000 in sales and about 200 orders per day.
It’s an emotional effort that has those closest to the teens thankful while remembering those who weren’t as lucky.
“I don’t know, maybe if she didn’t go home she wouldn’t be able to be doing this,” Guttentag’s mother, Mindy, said in an interview with NBC 6.
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