Lions helped fund cancer treatment

Hi everyone, we hope you all had a good Christmas and we wish you all a Happy New Year.

One of our last activities in 2022 was conducting a BBQ outside Coles to raise funds to support one of our local residents Matt Donnelly, who requires bowel-cancer treatment. Matt’s oncologist has recommended that he use immunotherapy and recent studies have been positive. As an experimental treatment, Pembrolizumab, the immunotherapy drug, is not yet covered by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and needs to be funded upfront by Matt and his family.

From the BBQ and donations on the day of $500 the Lions club of Helensburgh will additionally add funds to make it $2500 total to help Matt with his treatment.

We are now in planning mode for the activities for 2023. As the only service club in Helensburgh, like other volunteer organisations we have seen a big reduction in the number of members. This adds more pressure on existing members to do more with less help.

So as our communities get back to the “new norm” we are really asking our community of Helensburgh to consider joining the Helensburgh Lions Club to make it viable and to conduct events that our community need. It is a rewarding and satisfying experience to be able to give back.

Please reach out to us on info@helensburghlions,org.au or our Facebook page.

See you all next month.