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People help people

Stephen Jay Hawkings

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Just thought I'd share this, as we can easily lose hope in the world today with all the madness going on right now.

http://www.independent.ie/life/family/family-features/heartwarming-moment-irish-teen-tells-her-siblings-public-raised-700k-for-lastchance-cancer-treatment-35456312.html

Here is a young teenage girl with her whole life ahead of her struck down with the most awful cancer, so rare it's 1 in 60 million. The only hope for saving her life is treatment with a specialist in Texas where she's told she'll have to spend a year if she is to have any chance of survival.

The cost would be the insane amount of €500,000, so after doing all the family can, by fund-raising etc. they pleaded to the Irish government to help with the cost where they were met by a big fat NO.

Her last chance was to set up a Go Fund Me campaign and make a video asking anyone and everyone to help. The video went viral, and in 3 days over €700,000 was raised. The largest European campaign ever on Go Fund Me.

As she's from my own hometown I donated, because if you won't help your own, who will? The Irish government should be ashamed of themselves but recently they've been too busy smearing a whistleblower with child abuse accusations so why would they care? It would have been nothing to them but they'd rather let her die. I hate them eternally.

I think these Go Fund Me campaigns are a brilliant new way of helping people and show that we're not such a bad species after all. there's just a few ruining it for everyone. People help people, not politicians or bankers or the elite who look on while so much of the world suffers when they don't have to.

I wish that young girl all the best. At the very least she's been given real hope.
 
That's a heart-warming story SJH. Although these sort of campaigns probably attract some level of 'abuse', I reckon the overwhelming majority are kosher, and it does restore faith in humanity to see stories like this one where people pull together.

It's just so depressing that it takes this kind of thing (and Children In Need always blows me away) to get people the help they need and deserve when governments are literally throwing money away on vanity projects, or worse, giving money away to their cronies and party donors. But the vast majority of us (humans) are good people, and won't let others suffer if they are in a position to help.

Good luck to the kid.
 
Lovely warm hearted post SJH. It is amazing to see what go fund me and the like are doing and it shows how much good there is in the world too.

We are all affected by negative media day in and day out, so posts like these are great for warming the heart and realising the world isn't as bad as it seems at times
 
Yeah, it's like young Charlie Round that I've shared things on facebook/front page here about. He has a horrible cancer. They are struggling to raise the funds for him at the moment.
 
I must have completely missed that Fear, is there a Go Fund Me campaign for him, and could you share the link?

I got Paul McGrath to retweet the other girl's campaign and tried a few others. I can try get it spread around.

 
Bless him.

I asked his nan if he had a little Hercules teddy as I wanted to send him one. But he had!

http://www.astonvilla.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=7522304

http://www.astonvilla.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=7522375
 
Thanks for the links Fear, I'll do my best to spread it far and wide.

If Shauntelle could raise 700k in a matter of days, surely this kid could reach the 50k required. Just need to get it out there somehow.

I'll ask her if she could do a video for him or something, worth a shot at least.