A FUNDRAISING night has been organised to help a Wirral mum get her young daughter home by Christmas after months of cancer treatment.

Amy Murt is just 19 months old and was diagnosed with Wilms tumour, a cancer of the kidneys, in March.

She had spent more than four months at Alder Hey Hospital's oncology ward undergoing treatment, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and blood transfusions.

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During that time the family home in Walsingham Road became riddled with damp, which meant everything, including furniture and Amy's toys, has had to be thrown away.

The damp course is now being repaired and the kitchen replaced, because of problems caused by damp.

Until the work is finished, Amy and mum Christine are living with relatives.

But Christine is desperate to get Amy back into her own bed before Christmas.

The family hopes to raise £5,000, to cover the cost of repairs and replacement of items that were thrown away.

So far, the family has managed to raise around £2,000, but need your help to raise the rest.

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In bid to help, a fundraising day will be held at Hayley’s Halos on Poulton Road in Wallasey on Friday, October 21.

It was organised by the salon’s owner Hayley Haygarth, who met Amy’s mum Christine, briefly when she was out during a visit to a printer’s picking up flyers for the fundraising campaign.

She told the Globe: "When I heard about this family I was just heart-broken for them.

"I've got three children myself, two of a similar age. Amy's situation is every parent’s worst nightmare.

"We really need help as many people as possible to come along to the fundraising night and donate in the salon or the just giving page, or book in for a treatment to raise money and get this little girl back into her own home for Christmas.

"Her mum just seems lost, it’s so sad. She just doesn't know where to start."

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Mum Christine, a self-employed caterer, said: "When we were due to leave hospital I went home to check my house, it was full of damp and there were slugs everywhere.

"They were all in the kitchen and on Amy's toys and pram.

"Because Amy has an infection, we couldn't spend time in the house, so we're living with relatives at the moment until the house is ready to move back into.

"A lot of people have got animals and Amy’s not allowed to be around them.

"Amy was only 13 months when she was diagnosed and she’s 20 months now.

"Over the last seven months she's been through a lot, but has been really, really brave and keeps smiling. I'm so proud of her.

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"I'm so grateful to Hayley for organising the fundraising event.

"The funny thing is I'd never even met her before the day we spoke in the printers when I was getting some flyers done.

Amy’s fundraising page, set up by aunt Katie, is at www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/help-Amy-get-home