11.03.2014
Community Turns Out To Support Hub Coffee Morning
The Hub in Ashford, County Wicklow, held a hugely successful coffee morning today (Tuesday, March 11) raising €1,000 for a local girl who needs to travel to France for treatment. The Hub is an initiative run by Killiskey Parish and the event drew support from across the local community and beyond.
Twelve year old Chloe McCall from Brittas Bay underwent an 11 hour life saving operation to remove a tumour from her brain in 2009. The operation left her weakened and needing rehabilitation for her speech and motor skills.
While she receives only half an hour a week of physiotherapy and rehabilitation in Ireland, her family say she could be placed on a five day programme in France. They are raising funds to bring her there after Easter.
Chloe’s plight featured on the front page of the local newspaper recently and The Hub’s Lesley Rue and Jane Hammond decided to act. They hold monthly fundraising coffee mornings in the Ashford village venue and slotted in an extra event for Chloe.
Chloe herself came to the coffee morning. She is pictured (front left) with her sister Julia; the Revd Ken Rue, associate Vicar of Wicklow and Killiskey; her grandmother Gertie McCall; Jane Hammond; and Lesley Rue.