Family facing very difficult challenges

This story is heart-breakingly sad, and confronting for viewers - it is, of course, much more so for the family.

Last night, Channel 9's A Current Affair featured a story about Sharon Chan and her family from country NSW. Sharon has two boys, one with Down syndrome who has just completed treatment for leukaemia. She is about to give birth to her third child, and her husband, Rob, died very unexpectedly last week - enormous challenges for any family to deal with at any time, let alone all at once. The story is sensitively told, and Sharon is a remarkably stoic woman.

A Current Affair's report is summarised online here, along with the 19 minute video from the show. Rotary Australia has set up an appeal for the family, with a link on the Channel 9 page, should you wish to contribute.

5/7/2015: in just two days, the response to the appeal has been huge. See today's ACA video here.