Donations
If you’re visiting this site after reading the Big Issue article and would like to make a donation, please email for further details or use the Paypal link on the right hand side.
Old-fashioned cheques will be gratefully accepted. They can be made payable to me and posted to the address here on the site.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the response and would like to thank everyone who has emailed. I was unprepared for such a response but Eoghan, our web designer has saved the day and added a Paypal link. (Thanks Eoghan!)
The group of children with congenital heart defects will be travelling to France later this year for treatment. A couple of urgent cases were brought to Europe by our partner there very recently, partly at her own considerable expense.
Your money will help the children and a parent accompanying them to reach Damascus so that they can travel to France from there.
I will try and email all donors a thank you letter with a few more details.
As one or two of you have pointed out, we’re not a registered charity and don’t have a registration number anywhere on here.
I’m hoping to tackle that one as soon as I can by finding some volunteers on Boardmatch Ireland who will help with management, co-ordination and time management. If they can help us register as a charity, then that would be great. (Get On Board seems to be the equivalent in the UK from their recent ads I’ve seen)
I’m trying to think of a way to further publicise the fact that many parents with children who have serious medical conditions cannot find anyone to treat them in Iraq, and they face various hurdles and pitfalls – not least their own safety in much of the country if they travel by road – which are very difficult and expensive to overcome.
One or two ideas are in the pipeline and I’m hoping to find time to see them through to completion amidst the dozen or so other tasks piling up as I write.
Finally, The Independent published this article and a letter from nearly 100 leading doctors in the UK about the health conditions facing Iraqi children. I’ve written a letter too which I’ll publish on here shortly if they don’t publish it.