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The Asthma Foundation is New Zealand’s not-for-profit sector authority on asthma and other respiratory illnesses. We advocate to government and raise awareness of respiratory illnesses, fund research for better treatments and educate on best practice. We provide resources on our website and support our 18 affiliated asthma societies in providing education, support and advice services.

Please support our work right now with a credit card donation via our secure online site. Just click here to fill out our easy online form in 30 seconds flat.

Other ways to make a donation

Some of our donor family prefer to phone 0900 4 ASTHMA (0900 4 278 462) to make an automatic $20 donation on their phone bill. Alternatively, you can easily set up a monthly automatic payment, which reduces the cost to the Asthma Foundation. Please click here for more information.

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To make a gift of a lifetime that helps future generations to breathe easier click here for information on wills and bequests.

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Payroll giving means that you can claim a tax credit when you make a donation to a Not For Profit organisation within the pay period in which you make the donation, rather than having to wait until the end of the tax year. More here.

Why our work is so important

Everyone knows someone with asthma but not everybody knows the impact it has. The statistics are alarming – one in four children, one in six adults and one in every 200 deaths every year are due to asthma. Despite the shocking figures, the effects of respiratory illness are greatly underestimated and misunderstood.

We have had contact with many people whose stories provided a glimpse into the seriousness of asthma in this country.

There’s the boy who had an asthma attack while staying with his grandparents. An ambulance was called and on the way to the hospital the boy lost consciousness a couple of times and nearly died. In fact, if he’d arrived even a few minutes later he probably wouldn’t have made it.

There’s the grandmother who relives that day over and over in her mind.

Then there’s the girl who had a severe asthma attack outside a medical centre, and went into cardiac arrest. Luckily two policemen where on hand to do CPR until a doctor arrived to administer a shot of adrenalin. After nine hours on life support, she made it through.

How about the child who had an asthma attack at age five and when asked about it two years later remembered it so vividly, because it felt like he ‘was going to die’?

Luckily it’s not all bad. In all of the above cases, the kids are now doing relatively well and we are thankful for that. There are many cases where children and adults alike overcome this disease and fulfil any goal they set themselves. They key to leading a successful life with asthma is knowing how to manage it well. Most people don’t make an effort to do this until they realise how serious the condition can be.

We need help to create awareness that although asthma is common in New Zealand, we still need to take it seriously.

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Please support our work right now with a credit card donation via our secure online site. Just click here to fill out our easy online form and help us make a difference.