Medical Costs

Dear Friends,

We’re reaching out to let you know that we are kicking off a campaign to help Coach Auka and his family, and we need your help.

Coach Auka's youngest daughter, Priscilla, was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer last year. Three different specialists have recommended a new treatment that is now routine in France and Germany, but insurance will not pay. They claim it is still too experimental. It will cost the family more than $50,000 to travel to Europe and pay the doctor bills at a private clinic.

We all love Coach Auka because He has a fierce spirit and inspires so many children and others in our community to be their best. He often stays overtime at the Football pitch to help a teammate, too, sacrificing precious time He could be spending with his own family.

The effects of this illness are devastating to his family, however. The prognosis, with the medicine, is a 55 percent survival rate, with a full recovery. The other options, which insurance will cover, include painful chemotherapy treatments. They only have a 25 percent survival rate and low chances for full remission.

The family has appealed the insurance company, but with no luck. The local bank has agreed to give them a high risk loan, for which they have to mortgage their home for a second time. The payments will be over $1,800 a month for 3 years, meaning that Auka or hIs Wife will have to get a second job.

We can’t cure Priscilla, but we can help ease the financial burden and resultant stress that the family is facing. Our goal is to raise the entire $50,000 for them, to pay back the bank by the end of the year.

You can help in the following ways;

• Think about pledging a monthly gift toward the loan payments, which we hope to pay with donations as we raise the rest.
• Help us fundraise with your own fundraiser. If you can’t afford to give yourself, please think about pledging to fundraise from your own friends and family on his behalf. If you can attract 10 donations of $25, it would have a great impact on our course.

If you have other ideas, we are happy to hear them as well. Otherwise, please consider making as generous a gift as you can today, or pledging to do so in the coming days toward our $50,0000 fundraising goal.

Regards

Moffat Atancha Ndege