FDC Southeast is proud to support the Gavin Glynn Foundation through the Charity Payroll Fund.

The Gavin Glynn Foundation believes that all children with cancer deserve the best care, wherever in the world that might be. The Gavin Glynn Foundation helps families of children battling cancer to travel overseas for treatment not available in Ireland.

The mission of the Foundation is to assist families with all the logistics and financial aspects of travelling overseas for specialist cancer treatment not available in Ireland.

Supporting the parents in accessing and organising that care is what the Foundation does.

Keeping the whole family together during travel for a child’s cancer treatment is essential for the wellbeing of the patient, as well as the parents and siblings.

This is why The Foundation commits to covering all the travel and accommodation costs for the whole family.

By taking the financial burden and stress away from the families, it allows parents to focus all their time and energy on healing their child and supporting their family.

The Gavin Glynn Foundation was created in honour of Gavin who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer known as Rhabdomyosarcoma on 19th October 2011 at the age of 18 months old. He had a small lump on his bum cheek which then was discovered to be a large tumor which was covering his whole pelvic region and had also spread to his lungs. Rhabdomyosarcoma is a cancerous (malignant) tumor of the muscles that are attached to the bones.

After flying around the world to seek various treatment options, the family brought Gavin back home where they cared for him until he passed away on the 21st of October 2014. Gavin’s Cancer was very aggressive, but he never gave up and fought all the way until the end. Gavin lived life to the full in a small number of years. He always smiled and laughed and brought strength and happiness to us all and everyone who met him.

“We cannot praise the Gavin Glynn Foundation highly enough. They organised everything from start to finish for my 14-year-old niece Caroline Kenny who is battling an inoperable brain tumour and had to travel to Germany over the Christmas period for treatment.  They made a very stressful situation a whole lot easier.  They are a wonderful organisation, and we cannot thank them enough,” says Maeve Power, FDC Employee.

His family says they created the foundation for 3 reasons:

1: Information is power and early decisions have enormous consequences

2: 2nd, 3rd or even 4th opinions from other consultants are required.

3: To never ever give up hope.

All Donations to TGGF go directly to helping families who need to travel overseas for specialist cancer treatment not available in Ireland. Donate here: https://tggf.ie/donate/