Hi,

My name is Emma and I have a small school on the island of Koh Samui in Thailand.  One of my students, a little boy called Rino, has just been (after literally years of doctors telling his family he would grow out of it) diagnosed with Ebsteins.  He saw a specialist in Bangkok who told him he will need surgery within a year.  His parents don’t have any insurance and the operation will cost somewhere in the region of 2 million baht, or 40,000 pounds.  We are setting up a website for him and are starting to organize fund raising events.  The reason I am putting this post up here is to ask for ideas and help.  He is an amazing little boy and I have come to love him very much over the last five years that I have known him.  He hasn’t had the easiest of lives and it breaks my heart to have to see him now go through this as well.  Any ideas will be gratefully received and when we have his blog set up I’ll post details of that too.

Thank you, Emma