Help Jas get a Powerchair!

Kia ora friends.

I am in desperate need of help. Earlier this year I was diagnosed with ME/CFS, a condition that shares a lot of symptoms those suffering with Long Covid also live with. I live with multiple disabilities but my ME/CFS is the most severe, making me housebound and frequently bed bound. It causes me incredible amounts of pain, insomnia, brain fog and indescribable, everlasting fatigue that severely disrupts my ability to keep myself well. I can feel my body's baseline deteriorating even more and I have no choice but to ask for help.

I have completely lost my ability to leave the house. In the past I have usually relied on ubers and my current rollator to access the outside world but I have declined so rapidly this year and now require a powerchair as it is no longer safe or possible for me to use it even for a few minutes as it severely exacerbates my Post-Exertional Malaise. I have explored every possible avenue before ultimately deciding that what I now need is a powerchair. Because of my financial precarity as a disabled person I must rely on mutual aid to raise funds for this.

This power chair will help me get to my doctor’s appointments, pick up my medication, and allow me access to begin other treatments such as physiotherapy, all of which I have been unable to access for a long time. It will get me back into the community, see friends and even the park behind myself for the first time ever.

Any donation amount is greatly appreciated.