
Help Asenaca get a kidney transplant
Asenaca is just 17 years old and her kidneys are dead.
We have managed to get Asenaca onto dialysis and because of her young age she was offered one of the very few places on the Government Dialysis Program. But dialysis isn't forever. Without a transplant she will die. Her father, who works for me as a gardener/handy man, here in Fiji, is ready to give his kidney. But we need to raise $40,000 AUD to make that happen. Can you give even $5 and share this to others, please.
Thank you.
Amanda
Asenaca Naloki is just 17 years old but has just been given a death sentence because the dialysis and transplant she needs in order to live, is more than her gardener father Epeli can ever hope to pay for.
The family are heart broken. Asenaca has been born into a country where warriors roamed as recently as 100 years ago, but Fiji now has one of the highest rates of diabetes and kidney failure in the world. The corporations churn out cheap fizzy drinks, busicuits and noodles. Making millions as they poison their own people and yet the Fijian Government cannot offer any form of real health care.
Asenaca's gentle mother Teressa battles severe mental illness. Not an easy road to navigate in Fiji. But even so she is a good mum. Asenaca's father, Epeli, was deserted by his own father as a boy, and left on the streets of Suva. He is illiterate. Even so he has always worked and dedicated himself to giving his children the chances he never had. He is a kind and honest man, always at the ready to help me with needy animals. Together, the family has led the simple life of the poor in Fiji. Unfortunately that has meant eating the food the poor now eat, resulting in Asenaca being one of Fiji's youngest ever to suffer total kidney failure.
She needs a transplant. This costs $50,000 FJD. She and the donor must travel to India for this life saving surgery. In the meantime she needs dialysis 3 times a week, and even with full Government subsidies this will cost the family $210FJD per week. More than they can afford. With no way to pay they have brought Asenaca home and are praying.
If Asenaca lives she wants to become a vet and an advocate for changing the eating habits of Fijians. She wants to stand as an example of how eating what Fijian businesses promote as health foods is actually killing the Fijian people.
I know the father well and we are helping them, but this is beyond what we can offer them.
Funds raised will initially go towards dialysis and then hopefully a kidney transplant.
If Asenaca doesn't make it, any funds raised will go directly to a Fijian NGO that assists families in similar situations.
Thank you
Amanda Millar