Republished from The Somerset Guardian, 3rd August 2006
Taking their fundraising to new heights, Anne Kemp and Vicky Robins have jumped from an airplane to raise money for 11-year-old cancer sufferer Nikita Moore.
The pair from Radstock took part in a parachute jump 13,000 feet above Salisbury Plain on Friday, raising an estimated £500 for Nikita’s parents, who need to raise $41,000, about £22,000, to send their daughter to America for treatment.
Nikita, from Peasedown St John, has been diagnosed four times with cancer during her life. Now her parents hope to send Nikita to a clinic in California, where she will receive the controversial Issels therapy, which is so far unproven and unapproved for use on patients in the UK.
Ms Robins is a dinner lady at Trinity School, Radstock, where Nikita was a pupil until the end of this school year, and Mrs Kemp also has a daughter at the school.
The pair wanted to do something to help Nikita but a parachute jump was a brave move for 45-year-old Mrs Kemp, who had never set foot inside an airplane and is terrified of heights.
“I won’t do it again, but it was really exciting knowing what I was doing was going to help a little girl to live,” she said.
Other fundraising events for Nikita have included a sponsored walk from Bath bus station to her former school in Radstock, which took four-and-a-half hours and raised £200.
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