Limerick GAA star urges people to line up for a local cause this summer
LIMERICK hurler and member of the Gaelic Players Association (GPA), Dan Morrissey, is urging people to become charitable all-stars for a local cause this summer by going up the hill for Jack and Jill.
Going up the hill for Jack and Jill is easy! You identify a local hill or mountain to suit your fitness and ability and invite your family, friends, neighbours, or colleagues to join in on the climb.
Each €18 registration fee will help fund one hour of in-home nursing care and end-of-life support for children with highly complex and life-limiting medical conditions, up to the age of six years.
For Limerick hurler and GPA member, Dan Morrissey, every game is an endurance test. But the endurance capacity of Jack and Jill families in supporting their children day in, day out, is next-level.
“Jack and Jill is a gift of time for so many families who face very tough challenges in their home life. These families have a massive amount of resilience, but they need, and deserve, a break to enable them to recharge and face the next challenge. As a proud member of the Gaelic Players Association, I’m inviting our wonderful community of players and supporters to go Up the Hill with Jack and Jill, and the GPA, this summer, as we support these inspiring families who just need a helping hand every once in a while, from their Jack and Jill nurse.”
According to Carmel Doyle, CEO of the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation, going Up the Hill for Jack and Jill is a really valuable way to support the uphill challenge faced by Jack and Jill families in their daily lives.
“We are delighted to have the support of Dan Morrissey in encouraging people to go the extra mile for this year’s Up the Hill for Jack and Jill campaign. As with the GAA, Jack and Jill is all about community. We know there is no care like home care for a Jack and Jill child, and we want to do everything that we can to support parents in caring for their child at home in their communities, where they belong. Every €18 raised helps to provide one hour of in-home nursing care and it really is a lifeline to so many families who face an uphill challenge every day. I hope people will come together for our extra-special Jack and Jill children to show them how much they care and to help make parents feel a little less isolated and alone in raising a child with highly complex medical needs.”
There are families in communities across the country being cared for right now by the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation, including 19 families in Limerick. In fact, a total of 141 families have been supported by Jack and Jill in Limerick since the charity’s foundation in 1997.
2023 will be the ninth annual Up the Hill for Jack and Jill, kindly supported this year by the global healthcare company, Abbott.