Towards the end of November Peter Rottmann visited Pattaya to attend a Rotary meeting and met up with Malcolm and Christina Boden from The Charity Club of Pattaya.
He met to ask if they could provide any help with a boy he had come across in the Buriram –Krasang area.
The 12 year old boy lives with his widowed mother and his 5 year old sister. After his Father had died of mouth Cancer he began complaining of severe headaches, his mother took him to the hospital and they found he had a brain tumour.
He has since had 3 operations which has left his mother in debt as well as leaving the boy severely disabled, with no sitting balance, blind, dumb and incontinent. His mother cannot leave the house as she cannot move him as he would fall out of a normal wheelchair. He sits tied on a sun bed all day as this is the only thing his mother could do to sit him up, due to him having no sitting balance.
Vic King, The Charity Club’s treasurer and owner of the
As soon as they saw and heard of the terrible plight of this boy, they got together and between the two bars raised enough for the Charity Club of Pattaya to purchase a special wheel chair that is light weight, lies back, has head support, seat belts to hold him in, foot rests and leg supports.
Peter Rottmann was very moved when The Charity Club told him that he would be taking the chair back with him, he couldn’t believe how fast he had got the chair and what a wonderful surprise the mother and this boy will get this week when Peter turns up with the Chair.
Thanks to the money raised at THE LORD NELSON and THE QUEEN VICTORIA INN one little boy and his mums Christmas has come early, they will surely enjoy getting out and about visiting friends and relatives, something they haven’t done for a long, long time.
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