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Jade's Wing Walk for Peeps

Jade Kilduff • 25 April 2020

Jade's Wing Walk for Peeps

Hi I'm Jade from Sign Along With Us. I'm taking my role of Ambassador for Peeps to a whole new level - in fact I'll be taking to the skies to do a sponsored Wing Walk! 

This is no mean feat and I'd love to have your support. I'm going to add to the challenge (you know me!) by doing some Makaton signing while I'm up there!

Every penny will go to support families affected by HIE (you can find out more on the Peeps website), and to raise awareness so that no-one feels alone. Please give if you can, but if you can't a share would be massively appreciated.
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As some of you know, my younger brother Christian had a HIE event (brain injury due to lack of oxygen to the brain) after needing 24 minutes of resuscitation when he was stillborn at birth. 

This led to him being sight impaired and being diagnosed with Quad Cerbral Palsy. This charity is so close to our hearts and we are very passionate about helping them in anyway we can. 

When Christian came to live with our family from hospital at 5 weeks old we were told he had a grade 3 HIE injury. we had no idea what that was and what that could lead to and we knew nobody else who had experience or could help us. 

Peeps are changing that by providing families who’s child has an HIE (hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy) event with information packs and more importantly supporting families from the start and being there throughout their journey whatever the outcomes are for the child and family.

Peeps was set up in 2018 by Sarah & Steve Land. Below Sarah explains why:

We found ourselves in the world of HIE when our daughter was born in March 2015 – she stopped breathing shortly after birth and, without any warning, our NICU journey began. 

Neither of us had heard of HIE before, none of our friends or family had, and let’s be honest, it was a scary time. I googled it (going against the advice of all the nurses of course!), and luckily found a Facebook forum for families. If it hadn’t been for that group, the advice and information offered by other mums and dads, I think we might still have been wondering what on earth was going on! 

So, we wanted to change things a bit, reach out to families in the early days, and bring the information to them, rather than them having to look for it.
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