First, thank you so much to everyone who has donated, shared, or sent kind words—it means more than I can say. I wanted to share a little more about what your support is helping to cover, and why I started this campaign in the first place.
Over the past few weeks, my family has faced a string of difficult losses. I currently owe R2,500 to the vet, who did everything possible to save my cat after he was found unresponsive in a neighbour’s garden. They ran a full series of tests, but despite their efforts, we had to make the heartbreaking decision to put him to sleep.

Just a week earlier, I’d lost a kitten to sudden complications from tick bite fever. After nursing her through the worst of it and thinking she was in the clear, she relapsed and passed away. To say it's been emotionally heavy would be an understatement.

Adding to that, our garden was vandalized the morning we lost our older cat—my sunflowers were torn up. That same day, I was called by a neighbour who had found him barely clinging to life. It was a devastating sequence of events.

The rest of the funds will go toward urgent car repairs. Right now, the vehicle isn’t safe to drive, and I need to make an 80km round trip daily to get my children to and from school. I’m also trying to manage a few essential costs that have piled up from not having reliable transport during this time.

This campaign isn’t just about surviving a tough moment—it’s about keeping my kids’ lives as stable as possible while we work through all of this.

Thank you for being here and for helping in any way you can. Truly.