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Our parents (Micheal and Narelle) have been saving and working hard on their ute and slide on camper for 3 years getting it ready for a six month trip to cape york around NT and back home to Canberra. They have never seen NT or traveled up to cape york before. They had finally completed the project Thursday the 16th of June ready to leave Friday morning, due to the bad weather on the east coast they decided to stay until Monday. On Saturday the 18th of June around 7pm Micheal was testing out his new hf radio, fiddling around and went inside to have dinner before coming back out to complete some last minute finishing touching for the night during this time the ute and camper with everything packed inside was stolen from their front yard. At around 8:30pm the ute and camper were seen rolling down the hill from Mt Rogers nature reserve in flames and ran into someone's back yard. Thankfully the car didn't hit the house and no one was hurt. Due to the gas bottles in the camper it exploded and nothing survived.
The 2008 Dmax was a three year project with lift kit new tyres and rims, snorkle, bullbar, winch and roo lights. The camper took two years to build. Micheal had designed and built it himself from scratch with some help from Narelle of course. Even though Micheal was recommended by his doctor to discontinue work and too much physical activity for a while due to medical reasons including osteoarthritis in hip, knee, ankle and elbows he still shouldered on and continues to do so after this heartbreaking incident he is determined to start again going back to work on sites this morning with his small family owned business Gibsons' Pest Control to start saving all over again. Although this time he will have to start from right at the very bottom due to the camper being packed ready to leave for six months Michael and Narelle lost their $8000 cash savings for winter (as pest control is low earnings in winter) their winter clothes, hiking and snow boots, underwear, socks, all cmping gear including; hot water system, shower, ensuites, 85L fridge, table, chairs, lcd tv, fishing gear (some belonged to Micheals father) x3 rv awnings, portable toilet, gas stove. All their gear they have worked for for over 10 years was destroyed.
Micheal and Narelle are good people who always look after everyone else before themselves. Narelle cooks and bakes for young people who find it difficult to afford good homemade food, given quite a few young teens and adults a roof over their heads when needed, Michael volunteered a lot for the nrl clubs belconnen region and would help anyone with any car trouble they had free of charge and teach them how to do it all themselves for when they need to. They have given out small loans to a number of people, some who never paid back and they aren't even bothered because they helped to getting these people back on their feet. If you can contribute any small donation to help get Micheal and Narelles well deserved dreams back on the road we would all appreciate it very much.
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  • damien cowcher
    • $50 
    • 7 yrs
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Nickeh Kyisha Gibson
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Dunlop ACT

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