18th birthday fundraiser to remember Amelia
Friends and family are throwing a party for a Shoreham school girl who died of a rare blood disorder to celebrate what would have been her 18th birthday.
Amelia LeClercq was 14 when she was diagnosed with aplastic anaemia, a condition in which the body’s bone marrow does not make enough new blood cells, in April 2013.
The Shoreham College student, described by her mother as a ‘remarkable’ girl who was ‘courteous, gracious and brave’, desperately needed a bone marrow transplant – but by the time a match was found it was too late, and she died in August 2013 after developing septicaemia.