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Alina Recovery Project

Alina Ly just recently received a wonderful Xmas gift, a new liver! Please help Linda and her family with their ongoing expenses as Alina goes through recovery.

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Alina Recovery Project

Alina Recovery Project

Alina Recovery Project

Alina Recovery Project

Alina Recovery Project

Alina Ly just recently received a wonderful Xmas gift, a new liver! Please help Linda and her family with their ongoing expenses as Alina goes through recovery.

Alina Ly just recently received a wonderful Xmas gift, a new liver! Please help Linda and her family with their ongoing expenses as Alina goes through recovery.

Alina Ly just recently received a wonderful Xmas gift, a new liver! Please help Linda and her family with their ongoing expenses as Alina goes through recovery.

Alina Ly just recently received a wonderful Xmas gift, a new liver! Please help Linda and her family with their ongoing expenses as Alina goes through recovery.

Jason Colson
Jason Colson
Jason Colson
Jason Colson
1 Campaign |
Vancouver, Canada
$1,911 USD $1,911 USD 35 backers
273% of $699 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Choose your Perk

Give Alina a hug.

Currency Conversion $7 USD
$10 CAD
1 claimed

Get the kids a Christmas gift

Currency Conversion $17 USD
$25 CAD
4 claimed

Save them from hospital food.

Currency Conversion $35 USD
$50 CAD
2 claimed

Get them a good nights sleep

Currency Conversion $105 USD
$150 CAD
3 claimed

A Christmas present for Alina

Linda Ly has been a valued member of our team for over 5 years now and her daughter Alina was born with a condition that effects her liver.  She has been through many tests, and had multiple treatments both here in Vancouver and in Edmonton.

Just after her 2nd birthday in November 2013 she was officially put on the transplant list in hopes of finding a successful donor.  Linda and her family explored many options over the previous months, including one of them having to possibly donate part of their own liver, as a matching donor might be hard to find.

Both Linda and her family have been waiting patiently for the call that a donor has been found, and on December 8th 2013, her Christmas wish came true.

Linda and her immediate family were flown to the hospital in Edmonton and Alina went right in for surgery at 6am December 9th.

Thus far, the surgery has been a success, and she is currently recovering in the NIC unit at the hospital in Edmonton under the watchful eyes of her family and specialists.

This is where you come in 

As you can imagine, this has been both a joy, and additional hardship that this family is coping with.  Alina's mother (Linda) and father have to stay in Edmonton with her for at least three months, and maybe as long as one year.  While waiting to hear, the plan was to be able to work through Christmas so they could provide a great Christmas for Alina, and her brother Alan, while also saving money for their flights between Edmonton and Vancouver to continue treatment until a donor could be found.

As you can imagine, the decision to leave immediately once they got the call a donor was found, would be an easy one.  Without hesitation, they both took leave from their jobs, to ensure they would not miss this opportunity, and their daughter could be a happy, healthy baby, once and for all.  Such a decision doesn’t come without other consequences, and the financial toll this is going to take is a significant one.

With no income during their leave from work, they still need to cover:

  • Travel costs getting their family back and forth from Vancouver to Edmonton when needed while staying at the Ronald McDonald house near the hospital
  • cost of temporarily living in a new city; food, gas, etc.
  • trying to provide a normal Christmas away from home for their son Alan and for Alina

Though this is a difficult time of the year for everyone, with commitments both at work and personally, as well as, taking the time to make this a memorable time for those in each of our lives; if we can all take a few minutes and see what can be done to help this wonderful family in their time of need it would be greatly appreciated.  

All donations will go directly to Linda and her family, to help them absorb all the additional costs at this critical time in her daughter’s life. Our one ask is - Please give generously.

Other Ways You Can Help

If you just can’t contribute or are going to, and just want to do more, here are some other ways you can help:

  • Please spread the word to your friends and family, co-workers, etc
  • Share this campaign on social networking tools.

Please contact me with any fundraising ideas that you can host or would like to host in aid of this effort.

Thank you in advance and Let’s make this the BEST HOLIDAY Linda, Alina, and their family have ever seen!

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