Sometimes Facebook is awesome

So about 11pm last night I was linked to a group, a chap called Ben Cornick (friend of a few friends) has had a skydiving accident in Fiji breaking his femur in 3 places (just seen the X-ray ouch).

Well insurance isn't paying out and £20,000 is needed to med-evac him out to new Zealand to operate ASAP to reduce the risk of him losing his leg

Group had extended to about 1000 members last night and bank details were being pm to those offering to donate and a PayPal account was set up. When I woke this morning £12,500 has already been donated by bank transfer and PayPal and since then based on the funds coming in a generous donator has offered a short term loan to Bens family to allow the jet to fly within the next 12hrs

Now skydiving is quite a small community and the appeal from what I can see is mostly uk based and launched over night it's astounding how powerful the sharing of media can be, we are getting updates from Ben and his family in hospital and his his friends who have been rallying the campaign

There are enough stories of petty squabbles and bitching on FB but thought it was just fair to share the positives that can come from social media

that is really good and care!!

Just had a further update £15,500

 great   

That's great, when used for the right reasons social media can be very helpful

Wow that's really fantastic human nature is a wonderful thing xx

when the chips are down excellent news he will come home   

Wow that is amazing  

And as of just over an hour ago, £20,350.00 so target reached for the med-evac all monies extra to help with his post op medical cost and rehabilitation

That's fab just goes to show not all FB is bad   

fantastic news! credit to all the people that donated

jshrew wrote:And as of just over an hour ago, £20,350.00 :Dso target reached for the med-evac all monies extra to help with his post op medical cost and rehabilitation

Pleased to hear the target has been reached and gone over, I'm sure any extra will be spent wisely

that great there still live in our socially