Bring Megan Home

Meg and her son Jackson-Lee need to come home. The hardship of single motherhood and the COVID crisis has landed them in a precarious situation, in temporary government-assisted accommodation and an uncertainty that many of us have never experienced. They need our help to bring them safely home and rebuild their life. Megan married in the UK, but sometimes life can change overnight and she found herself facing many moves, employment in her career and then unemployment, waiting tables to make ends meet, while raising a son with little support, far away from home. And to be honest, she just hasn’t been able to catch a break despite all her best intentions and perseverance. Now, she finds herself in the fight of her life, paddling upstream with an uncertain future in the UK. She is desperate to come home, to give herself and her boy a better chance. Perhaps given the year 2020 has been we are able to better empathise with these unfortunate circumstances that hit some of us harder than others.  And we all agree, they need to come home, and this can’t wait until COVID craziness is over. Although Megan will stay with family when she returns, the chaos and exorbitant travel fares, travel restrictions and quarantine costs are just way beyond Meg’s means.  And with no job on the horizon, temporary accommodation, and a son that is losing hope, we want to bring them home, where they can find safety amongst their family and lifelong friends.  How we can offer support: We would like to raise a minimum of $10,000. This will go towards two airfares plus two weeks hotel quarantine that is an Australian Government requirement. Due to the fluctuating prices of flights and limits of ticket availability and restrictions into Australia, we have set our minimum target at $10,000 to cover all scenarios on their homeward journey.  Whether you feel you can donate $50 or $500, it’s your decision, but hopefully anyone who Megan and Jackson have touched, is able to give what they can to help.   We ask you to ask yourself, what would you do if you were in Megan's shoes? Could you ask for help? And be open to accepting that help when it comes from friends and family? As a friendship group, this is the best way we believe we can support our friend, in this challenging time.   So we are now turning to all of you who know Meg in anyway, to help us bring a beautiful, strong, resilient woman and her gorgeous boy home.  As Rev. Jess Jackson said…. ‘Never look down on anybody, unless you’re helping them up.’