The story of Sophie Atay on ITV news tonight compelled me to make a donation. Without treatment Sophie only has a very short time to live.
I have posted the links on this site to increase the visibility of the appeal and to ensure that people can find the correct website that the news story refers to.
Follow Sophie on Twitter @SophieAtay
Excerpted from Sophie Atay Appeal website:
“Sophie Atay was born fit and healthy on 15 November 2007 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
One day whilst drying Sophie after her usual bath they felt a lump on the left side of her tummy. After numerous and frustrating hospital visits over a 10 day period Sophie was diagnosed with neuroblastoma stage 4 (high risk) on Monday 16 February 2009. Sophie’s family will never forget that day! Her cancer had spread to her bone marrow. She was just 15 months old. Neuroblastoma is a rare and aggressive malignant cancer with horrendous survival rates as low as 20%. Relapse is very common which is reflected in the survival rate. If relapse does occur there is no cure at the moment in the UK.
Sophie’s family are now looking to raise funds to take her to the Memorial Slone Kettering Hospital in New York for treatment.
For more information about Sophie’s appeal, and how you can help, please see www.sophie-appeal.org”
Please note: I am in no way shape or form related to the family or affiliated with this appeal.
Update – November 2, 2009
Considering times are hard it’s nice to see people pull together and help in times of need. I am so pleased to say that Sophie’s family have reached the target of 500K.
Hopefully people will continue to donate to help raise funds for other children who desperately require treatment via The 2Simple Trust who raise money to benefit children suffering from neuroblastoma, to fund research into neuroblastoma, and to achieve other charitable purposes which seek to assist those children suffering from neuroblastoma.
Please make your donations via this link – www.2simpletrust.org
I would like to give a small donation – tryed but said line surspended. would you e mail me the details. thank you
Hi Jill
I think due to the publicity on the news the donation site is under pressure. I would recommend that you try again in the morning to give your kind gift.
hi, i would like to try and help sophie get the treatment she needs.do you have a number on which you can make donations?
Thank you for posting this information, I could not find the site for donation until I found it here.
Bless you.
Hi Paula
You can either visit http://www.sophie-appeal.org/donate.php which gives you a number of ways to donate or directly to http://www.justgiving.com/sophie-appeal and use a credit/debit card.
Thanks for getting back to me,i have now made my donation and hope you get all the money you need for sophie’s treatment to help make her better x
Hi Paula
I just need to make this clear that I am in no way shape or form related to the family or affiliated with this appeal. I am just helping people out there who are having trouble finding Sophie’s website.
However I am sure the Sophie’s family will appreciate your donation and kind thoughts. I’m also glad to have helped you find the donations website.
Hi from Carol
I would like to help raise money by auction on eBay and the money that I raise I will donate to this appeal thanks Carol Ansell