Sixteen-year-old Greenhill schoolgirl Nikita Field-Thomas will be undertaking her first sponsored event on July 31 when she joins her father Gareth in the Tenby 10K run.
Nikita, who like her father, is being sponsored for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, is running in memory of her aunt Katrina Field-Thomas (nee Lewis), a CF sufferer who died in November 2009.
Katrina, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis, was born in 1964, a time when CF patients were not expected to survive childhood. But Katrina was a fighter. With the care of her parents and later her husband Gavin, she surmounted the challenge of living with the debilitating disease that is Cystic Fibrosis.
Aware that the advances in the treatment of the condition could not have been achieved without the work of the CF Trust, she and Gavin involved themselves in fundraising with the Pembrokeshire branch of the Trust.
Today, the Trust is launching an urgent appeal for £6m - the funding needed to complete vital gene therapy trials which have the potential to correct the underlying cause of the disease rather than just treating the symptoms.
In supporting this appeal in Katrina's name, Nikita and Gareth, who live at West Holloway Farm, Penally, are paying a very appropriate tribute to the memory of a much-loved lady.
To sponsor them, ring 842919.