Help Baby Pun Pun
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Uploaded by danieladamweiss on Jun 13, 2011
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Dear Friends,
This is a heartfelt, personal appeal to ask you to help a little girl in thailand who has lost her eyes to cancer.
Her name is Pun Pun. She is only eight months old.
I met Pun Pun's mother during a recent trip to Bangkok. Her name is Patcharee. She is a buffet server in the hotel where I stay on my many trips there. She is trying to help her daughter on meager wages and without the help of her husband, who has abandoned the family: Patcharee, baby Pun Pun and another daughter, who is eight years old.
Imagine being a poor single mom struggling to support two little girls, one of whom has just had her eyes removed and now needs chemotherapy.
Fortunately, Pun Pun's bilateral retino blastoma was detected early. She has an excellent chance of survival with the proper treatment and care. But she will be blind the rest of her life.
Because Patcharee could not afford hospital care in Bangkok, she had to take Pun Pun to Chaing Mai, a 12-hour bus trip to the north. Patcharee is now commuting between her part-time hotel job in Bangkok and the hospital in Chaing Mai where Pun Pun awaits chemotherapy.
My goal is to raise money for Patcharee so that she can be by baby Pun Pun's side throughout the chemotherapy process without having the additional stress of working and traveling so that she can provide for her older daughter, herself and baby Pun Pun's growing expenses.
As baby Pun Pun is now surrounded by complete darkness, she needs her mother there every hour of every day and night - if for nothing else to sense her mother's presence, hear her voice and the comfort of her touch during this frightening and tumultuous time in her young life. With your help, we know we can improve the quality of baby Pun Pun's life. Mother and daughter should not be separated at such a crucial time.
Pun Pun and her mother have captured my heart, as I'm sure they have captured yours. Won't you help them get through this ordeal and give baby Pun Pun and Patacharee hope for a better future?
It is in our hands to help a family that was dealt a bad hand. Thank you for your support - any donation your able to make is greatly appreciated.
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