Good Morning Angels: Helping three-year-old Zanika after losing eye in freak accident

BACKGROUND: Three-year-old Zanika Morton is a bright, happy little girl from Carletonville. She is her parents Anika and Bertie Morton’s little princess and dearly loved by her entire family. On 25 March, Anika went to the shops and Zanika stayed home with Bertie. Zanika and Bertie were playing in the bedroom when Zanika tripped over her toy-bag next to the bed and hit her head on the bedside table. She hit the corner of the table with her eye - a freak accident - that left her eye bleeding. Her parents rushed her to hospital and that evening she had her first of three operations to save her eye. Despite all their best efforts, Zanika’s eye could not be saved. She now has an urgent fourth operation scheduled at the end of June to help prevent her eye from drying out and affecting the growth of her face. Anika and Bertie don’t have medical aid and they’ve paid for the previous three operations from their savings and funds they could get together. They turned to Facebook to raise the R70,000 needed to fund the fourth operation as they have run out of funding options. Within just over a week, they’ve been able to raise R55,000. Good Morning Angels has been asked to assist with the final R15,000 needed to make little Zanika’s urgent fourth operation possible.

REQUEST FOR: Three-year old Zanika Morton from Carletonville 

REQUEST FROM:  Amanda Mostert and Izelle Pieterse

ANGEL: The Good Morning Angels Fund NPC

SPONSORING: The Good Morning Angels Fund will assist the Morton family with the outstanding R15,000 needed to pay for Zanika’s upcoming surgery.

Riana Nel dedicated a song to Zanika:

ORIGINAL REQUESTS:

Good Morning

On Wednesday, 25 March the lives of the Morton family of Carletonville changed forever. Little Zanika stayed at home with her father, Bertie while mommy Anika went shopping before the start of the Covid-19 lockdown.  The lively little girl tripped over her toy bag and fell with her head against the side of the bed just as daddy looked outside the window.  When she looked up her left eye was full of blood. She was rushed to their doctor who immediately referred her to an eye specialist in Vereeniging who then operated on her that evening.  Two weeks later her eye started bleeding again and she went to a specialist again, this time in Potchefstroom.  She was again operated on immediately. The dr confirmed after the surgery that Zanika permanently lost her vision.  The family is now trying to save the eye itself. The eyeball is shrinking because of insufficient oxygen due to the injury. As a result, her whole face will start growing unevenly.  She needs a “dermis far transplant” to prevent this from happening.  The medical costs, including the crucial operation, are expected to be R70 000. A special bank account has been set up in Zanika’s name to cover her medical costs.  Friends of the family are selling jewelry etc. to try and raise the funds.  So far they managed to raise R38 000. They still need R32 000.    

Kind regards

Amanda Mostert

To whom it may concern,

In March my sister-in-law's daughter fell into a sharp object with her eye. She had 3 operations so far and at the end of this month, she needs another operation. The operation costs R70 000. They have raised roundabout R35 000 this far. She is a little girl and she is only 3 years old. The parents do not have any medical aid. Today I am asking please for a donation so that Zanika can get her operation to save her eye. Zanika is a child of God and we are so blessed with her. 

Please please let me know if any angle can help us raise funds for little Zanika. 

Izelle