Tina Schulz from Strasburg is very worried. She was able to buy a new vehicle for herself and her daughter Emily, who is suffering from the serious illness SMA. Many donors made it possible to pay the down payment for the van and the conversion.
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The best present for Tina Schulz and her seven-year-old daughter Emily is not under the Christmas tree, but outside the door: a VW van with a ramp that can be easily folded out at the back. “Since the beginning of the year we have been hoping that we can get the vehicle. Now it finally worked. We are very happy about it, ”says the woman from Strasbourg. Her daughter Emily suffers from the severe and rare disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), in which dying nerve cells lead to muscle wasting.
Emily is in a wheelchair
The disease was diagnosed at the age of one and a half. Emily is 100 percent severely disabled and dependent on a wheelchair. “Our VW Caddy could no longer be converted. He was also twelve years old. Seating Emily in the child seat was always associated with difficulties and pain, ”says the 35-year-old. The woman from Strasbourg has to rely on a vehicle to take Emily to hospital appointments in Schwerin, Hamburg or Berlin. Her problem: As a single mother, she did not get a loan without a guarantor to pay for the transport. The annual car cost 37,000 euros, the conversion with the handicapped accessible ramp cost a further 3200 euros. According to Tina Schulz, the health insurance does not pay because Emily does not participate in working life.
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The seven-year-old is in the 2nd class of the supraregional support center in Neubrandenburg, she is picked up in the morning and brought to Strasburg in the evening. Tina Schulz finally launched a call on social media asking for support. And that was heard, as the trained geriatric nurse reports. A foundation for disadvantaged children in Berlin donated a four-digit sum. Jörg Hamilton as managing director of Ueckermünder Maler GmbH paid for the complete installation of the ramp. Nadine Heise, owner of the restaurant Zeitlos 2.0, contributed a sum as well as the physiotherapy steel. Volkssolidarität Uecker-Randow had set up a donation account that received 2500 euros. “Money also came from many Strasbourgers, my family and employees of my employer, the day care guardian angel in Burg Stargard,” says the 35-year-old, happy and grateful for the broad support. The donations were used to pay for the ramp and the down payment for the van, so that Tina Schulz could get a loan without a guarantor. “The new vehicle is a thousandfold relief for us,” says the woman from Strasbourg gratefully.
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