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RAISING FUNDS<br />
FOR MND<br />
DAMASCUS COLLEGE SOCIAL JUSTICE<br />
At the beginning of <strong>2020</strong>, I did an assignment on Neale Daniher and<br />
became really inspired by his story, which details his fight with Motor<br />
Neurone Disease (MND). MND is a terrible disease that does not yet<br />
have a cure. To find a cure, we all need to work together by raising<br />
money for Neale Daniher’s FightMND foundation. This is a fund that<br />
was founded in 2014 by Neale himself “to cure, to care and to make<br />
aware.”<br />
Damascus Year 12 VCAL students decided to make a contribution<br />
towards helping to find a cure by raising money and taking part<br />
in our ice bucket challenge. All of the Year 12s in VCAL, including<br />
myself, produced a video to send to Neale Daniher to explain to<br />
him what we wanted to do. We then received a lovely response from<br />
Neale himself and he was very pleased with what we were doing—it<br />
was a very heart-felt video.<br />
Our aim was to raise as much money as we could to give to<br />
FightMND for all those suffering from MND, a life-taking disease.<br />
Our original goal was to raise $500 and we raised $2,370.80.<br />
We are currently still receiving more donations! We cannot thank<br />
everyone enough for all they have contributed to making the day<br />
happen. <strong>The</strong> ice bucket challenge ran so smoothly and I couldn’t fault<br />
one thing about it! Everyone had a laugh and got involved. Everyone<br />
feels great about having their own way to show support to those<br />
suffering.<br />
We thank everyone who participated and helped make it happen!<br />
Zoe Watts, Year 12 VCAL student<br />
Pictured top to bottom: Martin Ryan, Matthew Byrne and Andrew<br />
Robertson<br />
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