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Macarena Montesinos Ruiz is raising money for Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Participants: Ricky Mugwagwa, Virginia Torres, Lizel Muyo, Dan Muyo, Geraldine Carter, Justin Finbow
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Hello friends and family!
We are a group of nurses who will be walking/running 50-100km in the South Coast Challenge in aid of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability. We are nurses from differents wards at RHN and we definetly see the difference your sponsorship money will make to brain injury patients of the hospital. All money raised will have a direct impact on patients and their families who depend on the hospital and its hard working staff for their care.
The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability is a medical charity that provides the best possible care for people and their families living with neuro-disabilities, caused by damage or disease to the brain and other parts of the nervous system.
The patients who come to us for rehabilitation will have had a major life changing event happen in their lives. This could be a road traffic accident, or a stroke, a slip and a fall on an icy road, or developing a neurological condition such as Huntingdon's Disease. The damage that occurs to the brain normally leads to them needing to re-learn all the skills that every one else takes for granted. They may need to learn to talk again, learn to walk again, learn to be able to hold a knife and a fork/spoon to be able to eat by themselves again,
Sadly, not all of our patients are able to achieve a full recovery and most will continue to require support for the rest of their lives. At the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability we have fantastic teams of people who work every day to provide the best care, treatment and rehabilitation for all our patients.
We are a charity and we need to raise over £3million each year to support the care and treatment of our patients and residents. The money you raise will help us provide the important services and facilities including music therapy, aquatic therapy, recreation and leisure activities and essential daily equipment. With your support we can continue to providing resources and rehabilitation for people living with a neuro-disability.
- £15 could buy a box of assorted art paper for painting and drawing
- £30 could provide a session of communication therapy, helping a patient re-connect with the world
- £50 could pay for 2 patients to enjoy a one hour leisure session in the art room
- £60 could provide an Aquability session for a patient
- £80 could pay for one Music Therapy session for an individual patient
- £100 could fund the maintenance and upkeep of the Aquability pool
- £150 could help us equip one of our computers with a special keyboard, designed for use by patients with limited upper body movement
- £200 could provide 4 simple portable devices like a talking message board, helping patients .
I will be doing the 50km South Coast Challenge on the 31st of August 2019 to help raise money for the hospital to help provide these and many other services that help to improve the quality of our patients lives.
Please visit the Hospital's website to see more of what we do
I am also part of a team and together we will be taking taking this challenge on, please also visit out team page on:
https://www.justgiving.com/companyteams/teamRHN
Thank you so much!!!
Macarena