Kiri Walker's fight against cancer

Please help make life a little easier for Team Walker as they start the fight-of-all-fights.

Anyone who knows Kiri, Scott, Reid and Emmie (Team Walker) know how tight this whānau is. They always go the extra mile for each other, their friends and their community. They laugh together, work together, and now they fight together.

Kiri is the glue that holds this family together. She’s strong, kind, fiercely protective and incredibly humble. She’s the first to offer help and the last to take it, that’s what makes this request so difficult.

Much of the Kapiti community know Team Walker in one way or another, either from the sports clubs they’ve been involved in, the volunteer Fire Service, Reid and Emmie’s school or Kiri’s work within the community - which she has recently had to put a hold on due to ill health.

Six weeks ago, Kiri started feeling unwell after further tests, Kiri was diagnosed with advanced Cervical Cancer!

Team Walker is a private family, they’d rather help others than ask for help themselves, with Kiri not being able to work for the foreseeable future and Scott needing to take time out from the family business they bought seven months ago, they need financial support to make day-to-day living costs.

As a lifelong friend of Kiri’s, i can say she is fiercely independent, she took some (I mean a lot) of persuading to let people show their aroha for her and her beautiful whānau in any way they can.

PS. F*** you cancer, you’re not having this one!