You did it! Echo readers help Skye fund life changing operation

You did it! Echo readers help Skye fund life changing operation

4:42pm Tuesday 27th August 2013 in News

SHES done it!A little girl with cerebral palsy will be given a life-changing operation this October after 31,000 was raised in just over a month.

Thousands have now donated to help six-year-old Skye Cowan after her desperate parents Steve and Jo battled to secure her place for treatment.

And with the hard work of her family and a host of charity fundraisers determined to help, it has finally been confirmed that the schoolgirl has secured her place at the St Louis Childrens Hospital in Missouri in a months time.

Steve said he has been left totally overwhelmed by the generosity of those who have donated, many of whom he has never met.

We just couldnt have done it without the Daily Echo, he said.

It wouldnt have happened. The support of the paper has made such a huge difference and thats blown us away.

Skye will fly to America at the end of September for her operation on October 1.

She will spend a month recovering at the hospital before returning home for two years of gruelling physiotherapy.

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You did it! Echo readers help Skye fund life changing operation