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“Are you going away these holidays?”

For most, it’s a standard question over Summer. For a person on dialysis, it’s like asking if they’re going to the moon.

For Elle and Ash, it cuts deep. They loved to travel. And like most parents they do everything they can to give their 5-year-old son Arthur a regular childhood.

But kidney disease took away their chance to take regular holidays. Just as it took away their freedom and their chance at a normal life. With Ash needing life-saving dialysis for four hours a day, three days a week, they could never go far.

But that changed when they found out about the Big Red Kidney Bus.

Thanks to your kindness, Arthur’s dad Ash could get lifesaving dialysis, Mum Elle didn’t have to assist with dialysis and could just relax and Arthur could splash in the pool, ride his bike and make precious memories.

And that’s why the Big Red Kidney Buses are one of the most important and direct ways you can help families impacted by kidney failure.

Elle said,

Getting away and taking a break - thanks to the Big Red Kidney Bus made me feel like me again.
It made me feel like we weren't a family defined by illness, that we were just a normal family.
And it was so heartwarming to see our son so happy.”

Your support helps fund the Big Red Kidney Bus Program so more people on dialysis can do the things they love with the people they love. Afterall, isn’t that what life is all about?

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