Youngster fundraises despite suffering disabilities

A YOUNG girl suffering from three rare health syndromes has raised more than £1,400 for child cancer patients.

Abbi Forrester has been battling an extremely rare combination of syndromes which have left her face paralysed since birth.

She has never smiled or frowned, she is unable to open or closer her eyes, and also has club feet, a misshapen tongue and missing chest muscle.

But despite her many problems, the eight-year-old has found the time and energy to raise over £1,400 for a charity which provides wigs to children who have lost their hair in treatment.

And she has even gone as far as sitting in the barbers chair herself - donating more than half of her waist-length chair to the charity.

Abbi, who is from Kirkcaldy, Fife, suffers from the one-in-a-million Carey Fineman Ziter syndrome.

It is a combination of other rare syndromes.

Moebius syndrome has paralysed her face since birth, meaning she is unable to form any expressions such as smiles.

Meanwhile she is also suffer ing f rom Poland syndrome – meaning she has a small right hand and is missing chest muscles - and also Pierre Robin Syndrome – resulting in a small bottom jaw, and a misshapen palate and tongue.

She is also currently undergoing treatment for club feet.

On Monday Abbi, a P4 student at Capshard Primary School, had her hair chopped off to donate it to the Little Princess Trust.

Linda Forrester, Abbi’s mother, said: “I am very proud that she wanted to help others, considering what she is going through herself.”