I’m Running the 2025 London Marathon for my niece Mia to try and raise as much money as possible for her in her mission to walk.

To help Mia in her mission to walk

Mia was born on 31st July 2014 and is now 10 years old, Mia was born through a completely normal pregnancy and at about 10 months old was diagnosed with a severe visual impairment. (Blind) at first this was though to be her only condition and although she would be behind on her development she would eventually get to where children would be of her age just at her own pace Unfortunately this is not the case and after a number of MRI scans at Great Ormond Street Mia's brain is not developing as it should be and as i write this today Mia at the age of 10 cant hold her body weight sitting up un supported or crawl or walk. However Mia is slowly getting stronger and starting to weight bare on her legs but this will not improve unless she gets the Physio and support she needs. Mia in the last few years had to have a 9 hour operation at the Evelina hospital in london to help strengthen both her hip joints where the muscle is not developing. This combined with her not also being able to talk and getting bigger all the time is starting to become a real challenge for my brother in law and sister in law as a family.Now this is where i am requesting your help and support, NHS Physiotherapy is incredibly limited so much so that mia can only get maybe 3 blocks a year if that and this will not fulfil Mia's dream to be able to move. As Mia’s condition is linked to genetics private medical care is unable to fund her private physio and hydro however so they will not cover anything for her, So that leaves her family to have to pay for Mia to have private Physio and Hydro out of their our own pockets which is not cheap nor is it local so they need help in raising money in order to have this much needed therapy for her. So i would welcome any donations for the marathon so that it would be able to help support Mia on her journey to fulfil her dreams of being able to walk and be on her own feet like any child wants to be of this age. and any parent of a child of this age wants.

We all love Mia very much and one of her dads’.personal goals and things he dreams of seeing is her one day being able to walk out as a mascot at his football club Maidstone United and for one day as well as be able to move around as a normal child. This money could help change Mia's life forever and you really would be helping to give Mia what she wants and needs.

Thank you for reading this story and i truly thank you for any donations you make as it will mean the world to Mia in the long run and help the family with equipment and therapy for a long time to come.