Cliona's Foundation has set out a three-year strategic plan outlining a pathway to enable them to continue to help these families so that their work and financial stability into the future can be sustained
She lives with her parents Martin and Sarah and two older brothers.
They are just one of the 162 families helped last year by Cliona's Foundation, which is based in Limerick, but helps families across the country with the major non-medical costs of caring for a sick child. Over the years of Cliona's hospital treatment, Brendan said they were struck by the number of families facing huge financial hardship as the non-medical bills piled up and they saw at first hand the enormous toll this took on parents already struggling to cope with the nightmare of having a seriously ill child.
Brendan said the burden on these families has increased even more over the past year, with housing costs and the cost of living increasing, while there is overcrowding in hospitals.
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