Stephen Jay Hawkings
Vital Football Legend
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.
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.