Wheels for Wheelsie's Aunt

$1,030 raised

TARGET $10,000

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I really want to do something amazing for my Aunt Jenny and really need help in order to achieve this, she is the most selfless and caring person who will do anything for anyone as long as it is within her capabilities. I am trying to raise the funding to buy her a car, the reason for this is because the one she currently has is on its last legs and not very reliable.
She has unselfishly fostered three of my cousins, when child welfare were going to take them away split them up and our family never would have seen them again. When she got them the kids had been so undernourished that two of them had berry berry a condition that kids in Africa get with their big swollen bellies from starving in third world countries and as a result they all have had growing complications and mental developmental disabilities the are all really full on kids and two of them need to be medicated.
My aunt has been doing an amazing job in raising them on her own she gets them all to school without fail witch are all in different locations and make sure they all get home too. The kids all go to sport doing two different sports each, they all play cricket and go to swimming as well as other extra activities like getting dropped off to friends houses, the children always come first and are looked after very well they have always had clean clothes,there is six in her family and cleaning clothes seems like a full time job alone. The Children have the nicest clean cricket whites as she puts so much love into the task. she makes sure they never miss out on being fed and they all go to school with beautiful lunches that she makes herself, they get all the school equipment they require and have never missed out on school camps or excursions.
I try to get there at Christmas time as often as possible and the kids might not always get fancy stuff but that get what they need. Christmas is always special there, for them and for me, if it wasn't for her Christmas for me would be very lonely. they all do their sports on different days and every week takes them out to the local bowls club for a meal.
My aunt looks after the children which she treats as her own, they even call her mum. A job she does so far above and beyond the call of duty and I'm so proud of her for all that she's achieved. She has even made sure there teeth havie been well taken care of,the second eldest has had so many different pairs of brasses and visits to the dentist for adjusting, just so that he can have a beautiful smile. keeping them in sport has been the best thing for them they are very full on kids and would be more than a handful for anyone, but she has great skills as a parent because despite them being a hand full they are very well behaved and I believe it's all the sport that have helped make them that way. Keeping them all playing sport is not easy when you are only on a single parent pension and I take my hat off to her having them all playing two sports each as well as dancing on top for the youngest girl.my aunt never stops running everybody to where they have to go
I want to buy her a good condition second hand station wagon or soccer mum car something she can get all the cricket gear in witch is bulky and she has to go two different clubs at the same time as one is a girl, she sometimes needs to get my grans wheelchair in at the same time or mine once in a while this will enable her to continue to get everyone to and from sport as well everywhere else and let her do every thing else like get to and from shops and school without the fear off breaking down on the way. She truly deserves this and I humbly ask for any kind of assistance to help me help her.
She also takes care of my grandmother who lives quite a distance away she is crippled with really bad hips and needs to get to regular doctors appointments a couple times a week she also takes her shopping and anywhere else she has to if need be. As well as call in to make sure she is ok, she takes her to lunch once a week and tidies her home as gran is incapable.
On top of this when I have a vacation she always lets me stay there even though her home is so small the only floor space she has witch is in the lounge is just big enough for my suitcase a sleeping bag sized mattress and my wheelchair and that's if she has a tidy up before I get there. I hate putting her out cause her place is tiny the kids even have to sit on my bed on Christmas morning but she always insists that I'm no trouble and the amount of driving around that she does to keep things in order the way there ment to blows my mind. If I'm there I make sure I run to the train station as not to put her out, she drives her own two boys to the station when they need to and even one to work and home every day. If it's raining while I'm there when I'm going anywhere she insists that she takes me, when I would have ran any other time if she wasn't there, thats what I do any other time!.She never lets anyone down ever except on the rare occasions that her car has let her down and at worst maybe she's been 15 mins late while she arranged somebody else to take them for her, this has happened a few times and has had to borrow someone else's car while she gets hers repaired. She never has a day off or moments that she couldn't be bothered I honestly don't know how she does it. I thought with that much on anyone's plate once in a while that's oexpected by anyone, but not her it's seven days a week all year the only time she ever gets a relax is on school holidays even then she might get a couple hours and that's it
My aunt Jenny is the pillar of our family and had it not been for her I wouldn't even know my family at a very young age my parents split up and my older sister went with my father and my younger sister and I went with my mother but as she was not a very responsible person we were left with my Uncle and Aunt on her side where she never came to collect us so we were raised buy them until I was eleven and when mum and dad got back together my younger sister stayed where she was. But soon after the family got reunited my parents began fighting and sadly my father took his own life.
My mother immediately took us to Queensland to be with a former boyfriend and never returned to where we were, with family and didn't want any contact with my fathers side of the family. Six months later on Christmas Eve my sister tragically took her life also, feeling she did not want to go on without her father. She wrote on her leg be with my dad in the sky. As I was raised by my mums sister and her husband I never got the chance to get meet any of my fathers siblings or relatives and in the short time that we were together before he died, Aunt Jenny was the only relative I had the chance to meet. It was lucky she lived across the road from a train station as this was the only way I knew how to find her again when I left home at 14. She told me who my family is and I found out about all the relatives that I never ever met and got to find out about my older brother I never knew even existed. I was then taken to meet everyone soon after.
My aunt has always had a soft spot for me as my dad was her favourite brother, and because of the childhood that I had.She took care and arranged for me to stay with my gran when I had nowhere else to go and otherwise would have been on the street. I was lucky enough to end up very close with her, and all because of my Aunt Jenny, a relationship that I never would have known had it not been for her. She has made me feel like she's the closest thing I could call a guardian in my life. I dreamed many times of having a home like her boys have, and raised like they have been. Im not ashamed to tell people that she made feel special when no one else wanted me even though I wasn't her child its the reason I have the compassion that compels me to want to help her she didn't have to help me. She didn't have to take on her brothers three either , her boys were almost old enough to to look after themselves and my aunt was getting ready to enjoy her own life again and to be able to (boogie again)when she put her hand up so our family could remain together.
In all those years my Aunt has never even been on a holiday except to her other brothers house seven hours drive away for an easter weekend. I don't want people to think that I'm now taking advantage of there generosity by pushing my luck and wanting more than I need, but as well as the second hand car I'd like to send her on a fairly cheap holiday with the kids something she has never had the chance or funds to do as every time she almost got there she had to repair her car thus spending her savings.

Fundraising For

Jenny Keillor

Chris "Wheelsie" Keillor is inspiring runners across Australia, competing in marathons in a standard wheelchair. In 2018 he will push from Perth to Melbourne for Hearts Across Australia - but before that Chris has a very personal goal close to his heart; repaying the kindness shown by his Aunt Jenny

Funds Banked To

Gary Wilmot


Campaign Creator

Chris "Wheelsie" Keillor

Langford, WA



Tue, 8 Nov 2016

Daniel Mizza

$ 100

Keep up the great work champ!

Tue, 8 Nov 2016

Amy Shaw

$ 100

Your kind heart inspires me Chris

Wed, 26 Oct 2016

Nhung Wawatai

$ 30

Wow you've just made me realise I need to appreciate my life more as you and your family has it so much tougher. I wish all of you get the help and love you deserve. Blessings your way xx

Sat, 22 Oct 2016

Sandra Keenan

$ 50

Wishing you smooth roads and fun times tomorrow at Rottnest Wheelsie!

Fri, 21 Oct 2016

Sam Farman

$ 20

<3

Fri, 21 Oct 2016

Anonymous

$ 20
Fri, 21 Oct 2016

Anonymous

$ 50
Fri, 21 Oct 2016

Vincent Patrick

$ 50

Good luck with reaching your target!

Fri, 21 Oct 2016

Ben

$ 40

Best of mate. Maybe you could approach John Hughes for a good deal. I have heard he often helps in cases like this.

Fri, 21 Oct 2016

Thuy Tran

$ 20

Good luck with everything Wheelsie!

SINCE Oct 2016

12 

Donations

$1,030 raised

TARGET $10,000

Please support this cause

$
AUD

Fundraising For

Jenny Keillor

Chris "Wheelsie" Keillor is inspiring runners across Australia, competing in marathons in a standard wheelchair. In 2018 he will push from Perth to Melbourne for Hearts Across Australia - but before that Chris has a very personal goal close to his heart; repaying the kindness shown by his Aunt Jenny

Funds Banked To

Gary Wilmot

Campaign Creator

Chris "Wheelsie" Keillor

Langford, WA

SINCE Oct 2016

12 

Donations