Dayton battles through with a broken heart

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Given by 519 generous donors in over a year

Our brave boy isn’t like most other 9-year-olds – he has never eaten a meal in his life. Dayton has been fed by a tube his whole life, and

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Dayton was born with heart defects that required surgery twice just two weeks after he was born. He has received a Transformer for every scary procedure he has had - they are his badges of courage. Every day we are reminded life is a prize and we want to make his dream of meeting Optimus a reality.

Dayton's story: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/9664590/Dayton-battles-through

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Update for 2015 6 March 2015

Hi Everyone!! So sorry ,this update is well overdue once again THANK YOU!! All for your support it means heaps behind the scenes last year was a extremely rough year for Dayton he suffered 7 bouts of life threatening pneumonia's and he was in and out of hospital many times over the year that we made made the heartbreaking decision to postpone his dream of meeting Optimus Prime until sometime this year so we have got the ball rolling again & Dayton has been busy painting his syringe painted masterpiece's which he is putting regularly on Trade Me ,this year is Dayton's year it's time to make his dream a reality :)

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