Last Tuesday (30/06/09), my friend sent me an email asking for donations to help a little girl called, Charmaine.

She’s a 4 years old girl who has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer (Neuroblastoma Cancer), and currently the treatment available in Singapore has only a guarantee rate of 10 – 20%. In order to have a higher rate, she has to be treated in US, and even then the success rate is only 40 – 50% (but the upfront deposit is USD 350,000)

Her mother like me has her own blog and I went to take a look. She’s a single mum, whose husband has left her for her good friend when she was 7th month pregnant (Charmaine). I could imagine her world came crushing down. She started dating her ex-husband at the age of 17, and he’s the only guy she dated. I can’t empathize her suffering but only sympathize.

After reading her blog, I realized I’m very blessed as my daughters are healthy. Without hesitation, I agreed to buy the goodies bags priced at $10 (an organization is raising funds for her to be treated). Even though it was $10, but most of us (my colleagues) donated $20. A little contributed by everyone hopefully can accumulate to a lot.

Many might feel that USD 350,000 can save a lot of lives, but it’s regardless of the numbers of lives one can saves, it’s the 1 life we can save that matter.

I’m a mother myself, and for that I can understands her desperateness. Pray that god will bless her and helps to overcome their obstacles……….