Dreamers

Meet Emmanuel, a kind and compassionate sophomore enrolled at North West Cabarrus High School who has battled end stage kidney disease for the past four years. During this time, Emmanuel’s day-to-day life has looked drastically different compared to his peers. Emmanuel has spent each night hooked up to a machine in order to endure the discomfort of 10-hour dialysis sessions. However, dialysis does not fully replace all the kidney’s functions, so it is not considered a