Republished from The Somerset Guardian, 29th June 2006
The sister of Nikita Moore, the 11-year-old girl from Peasedown St John diagnosed four times with cancer, is raising funds to help send her sibling to the US for treatment.
Danielle, 22, and her friend Stacy Curtis, 21, will walk 18 miles from Farmborough to Chew Valley Lake on Sunday. The money raised from their sponsored walk will go towards the $15,000, about £8,000, still needed to send Nikita to the Issels Clinic in San Diego, California.
The Somerset Guardian reported how Nikita’s parents, Tracey and Nicholas Trezise, are remortgaging their home to pay for their daughter’s treatment.
The initial target figure was $41,000, about £22,000.
Danielle and Stacy, both from Farmborough, will start their road walk at 9.30am and will be joined by friends and cousins along the way. Anyone who would like to walk with the group should meet them at the village post office at the start of the day.
Mother-of-three Danielle joins many others in the region who are pledging their time and money to help Nikita.
“People said to us why not try a skydive to raise money. But I hate heights,” she said.
“But we had to do something to raise as much money as possible and so chose
a nice walk.”
Other fundraising events have included a sponsored skydive, walk to school from Bath bus station to Trinity Primary School in Radstock and a mufti day at Farmborough School.
A sponsored wheelchair race has also been planned between Bath and The Globe pub in Newton St Loe, for Saturday.
Nikita’s parents want to send her to America so that she can be given the Issels therapy, so far unproven and unapproved for use on patients in the UK.
Collection buckets for the fund are also in place at Midsomer Norton’s Tesco store.
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