Dawg the Bounty Hunter will soon get a pointer or two about scrapping — from a 12-year-old kid from Eckville.

Parents Jim and Carmen Chapman just learned on Friday that the Children’s Wish Foundation will grant their son Brody his dream of meeting and spending some time with Dawg and his crime-busting crew. Brody, his mom, his sister Jennifer and his aunt Pam Thorne will board a plane on June 14 for a visit with Dawg in Hawaii.

It’s just one more spectacular turn in a project that started last Easter when Brody — already battling a brain abnormality that causes hundreds of seizures every day — was diagnosed with leukemia.

Carmen credits Brody’s persistence with creating both the pun and the project: Scrapping With Cancer.

To help alleviate the stress and boredom of his treatment, Thorne had set Brody up with a disposable camera and some scrapbooking supplies.

He and his visitors worked on his scrapbook in the common area, attracting a good deal of attention and help from the other children undergoing treatment.

“They all had a lot of fun,” said Carmen.

“When we went back to our room, Brody turned around and said, ‘Let’s get them all scrapbooks, mom.’”

Brody’s words sparked a project that has now spread across the country and into the United States, including Hawaii.

His first scrapbook chronicles his initial days in the hospital, including stickers and photos of his caregivers and fellow cancer patients.

Brody was taking so many pictures, said Carmen, that people started calling him the Paparazzi Kid.

He continued pushing his parents to start making up kits for his fellow patients and generated his own ideas for raising money.

When he got too sick to get out of his hospital bed, Brody had his mom set up a money jar on his night stand. Every person who came to treat him or take a test had to put money into the jar, raising $400 toward buying scrapbooking supplies.

Since the first donors stepped forward and the first few kits were distributed in Edmonton, Scrapping with Cancer has attracted attention from an ever-widening range of parents along with roughly $50,000 in donations. Carmen is working with parents as far apart as Nova Scotia and Hawaii and is now in the process of setting up a charitable foundation so donors can receive tax receipts.

Each of the kits includes a disposable camera, background and specialty papers, glue, scissors, a paper cutter and a sticker folders and all kinds of stickers, including images of doctors, nurses and medical supplies.

Also included is a list of sponsors and a letter from Brody, encouraging recipients to enjoy their projects and wishing them a speedy recovery.

Still based in the Chapman family home, Scrapping With Cancer has now raised $50,000 in donations and distributed 300 kits, including 150 to children in Edmonton.

Even with some of the materials donated, it costs about $65 to put each kit together and Carmen has been digging into her own pocket to pay for shipping whenever the kits are mailed out.

The kits are categorized into one of four groups, based on the age and gender of the children who will receive them.

Kits are put together on an assembly line, and then boxed up according to category.

Volunteers have come from all kinds of backgrounds to help put the kits together, including the Beverly Broncs Boxing Club and the Canadian University College in Lacombe, said Carmen. The most recent assembly day was held on a Saturday in a service bay donated by an Edmonton car dealership, with about 60 people taking part.

Brody, meanwhile, continues to scrap with continuous seizures and daily chemotherapy treatments.

Energetic and chatty, he is unwilling to open up about his pending visit with Dawg — as if he’s afraid to jinx the outcome. But it’s a sure thing that TV’s best-known bounty hunter is going to get a new angle on living from the Paparazzi Kid.

Information about Brody and the Scrapping with Cancer Foundation can be found online at www.scrappingwithcancer.ca

Contact Brenda Kossowan at bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com