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ISSUE 611 Friday 16th August 2013
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W est Melton brother and sister Tomas and Georgia Collins have ex perienced a tough eighteen months by anyone’s standards, but the pair are putting their own family aside in the desire to assist others experiencing pain, but who aren ’t in such comfortable surroundings. Seventeen year old Tom, a St Thomas of Canterbury student, and his fifteen year old sister Georgia, who attends Villa Maria College, will forego their family Christmas and school holidays, to travel to India and work in the Mother Teresa orphanages/ homes for five weeks. Missing Christmas may not seem too big a deal to many, but for the Collins family being apart for five weeks could have repercussions that don’t bear thinking about. “Tom and Georgia have really done it hard this last eighteen months,” ex plained their mother Sarah. Sarah “They have a nine year old chronically ill sister, who has an incurable kidney disease and r e ce n tly h a d a ki dn ey transplant, (donated by her dad). Sadly her disease came back five hours after transplant and shut the new kidney down. Starship Hospital worked very
W est Melton brother and sister Tomas and Georgia Collins hard at saving the kidney, which they have done, but she is now a ticking time bomb and who knows when it may, or will, fail again,” said Sarah. “Unfortunately on top of all this, and while my husband and I were being tested to see who was the best kidney donor match, they found that I had breast cancer. So Tom and Georgia have struggled this past
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year with the knowledge that their mum and sister could possibly die.” Anyone watching TV One’s Break fast pro gramme o n Monday may well have seen the youngest member of the Collins’ family Maddie, Maddie who is the face of the Countdown Kids Appeal. “It’s quite special to have a South Island girl on the poster,” said Sarah, “and it’s lovely to be
raising awareness for such a wonderful cause, as well as knowing that any monies raised really do go back into hospitals. Mad die is al ways usin g equipment that the Countdown Kids Appeal provides, so it’s great to be able to get behind Countdown and support such a worthwhile cause.”
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