Please help important Family to get home to finish treatment

$213 of $7,500 goal
Given by 9 generous donors in 4 weeks

Trying to get my Mum and 11 year old Sister home from. Australia for medical treatment to be resumed in New Zealand.

Hamilton, Waikato

Hello everyone, my name is Shalagh, I am trying to raise funds to help bring my mum and my sister home to New Zealand. They are at Queensland Childrens Hospital and have been in hospital for a total of 56 days so far and still many days, weeks, months to go. My sister went into hospital, and they have found many problems with her, including a big mass lump (tumour) and are unable to get to it to find out what it is and the surgery they would need to do is 24 to 30 hours and very life threatening so won't be doing that. She has pancreas problems, double gall bladder, has many blockages so has had to have a gastric bypass (not a weight loss one) so that she can try and hold food and fluids down instead of bringing them up. She has many more medical problems, to many to list, and we are trying to get them relocated back to NZ to do treatment here as my mum is unable to work there and is unable to get support for income over there. The funds will be used for relocating and being able to have a reliable car to get Indy-Rose to all her hospital visits. Any small donation would help and would be so kindly appreciated. We will be forever grateful. Mum and my sister will have a good support network here in Nz rather than try and do it on their own over in Australia. We are hoping that with doctors' approval that they are home by August.

Shalagh McFarlane's involvement (page creator)

I am the eldest daughter and the big sister.

Use of funds

Air fare tickets back to New Zealand and a car so they have transport for treatment.

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Brianna on 09 Jun 2025
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Leithal on 05 Jun 2025
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Kirsten
Kirsten on 04 Jun 2025
The people of NZL, especially Tracy, made me feel at home, so I'll gladly help this little girl return to her loved ones as a small way of giving back.
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This campaign started on 1 Jun 2025 and ended on 1 Jul 2025.