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By Office | Posted: Thursday November 7, 2024

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Helping Billy

To help raise funds to get my grandson Billy to therapy, we have organised a big Weston Gala Day held on Saturday 11th Jan 2025. We are having a colouring competition and hoping you would kindly offer it to your students and add it to your newsletter for the children to complete. Entries will be able to be submitted to either of the New Worlds or Woolworths, they will all have boxes at the customer service desk. All winning pictures will be displayed at the Weston Gala Day and notified prior. There are prizes to be won and we are hoping the competition will help spread the word about the Gala Day.

Billy was born with a rare brain condition called Holoprosencephaly, he's now 20 months old, and can't walk, talk or even sit up. Therapy is his only hope but we can't get him there without community support. Billy and his family live here in Weston, Oamaru. Without warning, the government stopped funding his therapy and now we are left having to find the funds to get to Australia for his intensive therapy as this kind of therapy is not here in New Zealand.

We appreciate your support.

Kindest Regards

Karen Fraser (Billy's Nana)

021575761

Links to Billys stories and articles:

ODT video link to story

https://tr.ee/P5Bh4TLVw6

https://linktr.ee/buildingbillysbrain

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/iL1oPM8syxPSXxCU/?mibextid=oFDknk

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/north-otago/disabled-toddler%E2%80%99s-therapy-unfunded-after-govt-changes?fbclid=IwY2xjawE_IihleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfKJYstQ-ohgjtQIfAS0s-N2Dv1Q_9UzAM_63O33G6xBQ3-9pZRLl3UTyw_aem_qqGZ0cy5ITgVLKiV-t0Ntg

Building Billy's Brain link:

https://www.facebook.com/Buildingbillysbrain?mibextid=ZbWKwL