The Full Colour Trust raised the money at a ball and silent auction for Mhairi Flett, aged 40, to cover the $100,000 cost of the unfunded cancer drug Herceptin.
Christchurch-based Flett, a part-time paper sales representative is suffering from an aggressive form of breast cancer.
Flett says she is trying to stay positive for her children, Sophie, three, and Brodie, seven months. “I’ve got two kids and I want them to grow up with Mum.”
Trustee Mandy Nelson said the generosity of the donors and sponsors of the event had been amazing.
After raising the money for Flett’s treatment, Nelson said, the Full Colour Trust would continue to support others with health or other urgent and short-term needs.
She said the trust was set up with the aim of helping those in the printing industry in or from the South Island who suffer from serious or long-term illness or disability, and dependent survivors of those who suffer accidental death, while working in the industry.
“If you were threatened with long-term ill health, financial disaster or a similar family tragedy, you’d like to think there was a system that could offer you help. So would we. That’s why we set up a charitable trust to financially and emotionally assist people in the printing and advertising industry.”
Every year, nominations for beneficiaries will be called for, and trustees will meet to select one or more people working in the print and advertising industry who will benefit from the funds that are raised.
