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Help Us Keep Our Family Together

We are a young family who's world has been turned upside down. We were blindsided when our daughter was diagnosed with Fetal Heart Block @ 26 weeks gestation. Our only hope was for our little Lara to undergo open heart surgery and have a pacemaker implanted. Both myself and my partner endured 4 months of living at Perth Children's Hospital, never leaving our Lara alone whilst our daughter was inside intensive care and fighting for her life. Both myself and Lara's mother do not have any family in Australia, my dad passed away when my partner was pregnant. And my partner is an international student from Brazil; Who's mother passed away 5 years ago and own father is estranged. Both of us had no financial help during our stay at the hospital. I sold my car to keep food on the table and us together, we used all of our savings over the hardest 4 months of our lives. Knowing Lara required a new pacemaker battery every 5-7 years, and the electrical leads to the heart requiring replacement every 12-15 years. We created a plan to apply for the partner visa and raise our daughter in Australia. Shortly after our daughter left the hospital, both myself and my partner gained employment and were making progress saving. Until COVID-19 hit us for another round and both of us were made redundant. Destroying our ability to save for the partner visa and keep us all together. Lara needs her mother and we have undertaken every step possible to try and find a solution to our problem. Lara's mother's visa ends on the 8th of July 2020 and we are desperate to keep our family together. But we cannot afford to save for this visa whilst both of us are unemployed due to COVID-19. We are both hardworking people and never thought it would come to this: but we are desperate to stop Lara's mother from being returned to Brazil during a pandemic, with no health insurance and a child with Heart Disease. This would be extremely high risk and dangerous for Lara. Please help us by donating to our visa fund, keeping Lara's mother here in Australia, and giving our little Lara the best chance of a happy and healthy life.
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  • Frances Searles
    • $50 
    • 4 yrs
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Adam Curtis
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Perth WA

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