Here’s your chance to do something good, friends, and stand the chance to win a vintage motorbike at the same time.

A GoFundMe page has been created to help with the medical expenses of two-year-old Josephine Watts, who underwent surgery to remove a large brain tumour, but now needs to undergo further treatment in Germany.

According to Josephine’s mother Penny, her daughter was diagnosed with anaplastic ependymoma, a high-grade aggressive tumour:

We spent the following month in Red Cross Children’s Hospital after a seven hour surgery, where the highly skilled team of doctors had removed a tumour the size of a small orange – this was roughly 85% of it. The remainder was left due to the risks involved in taking it out as the tumour had enveloped critical neuro-vascular structures.

While Josephine is recovering, she needs to undergo further treatment to eliminate the remaining tumour. However, radiation therapy here in South Africa poses some risk, even more so for a mere two-year-old child.

So her parents sought out an alternative: proton therapy. It’s a type of radiation treatment with the main benefit being that it does not damage the healthy surrounding tissue, but is able to target and kill the tumour cells.

Unfortunately, this therapy is not available in South Africa.

The Watts have been accepted for proton therapy at WPE in Essen, Germany. The cost of the treatment is €84 000 (R1 243 692), while six-to-eight week accommodation and flights to and from Essen during the treatment process would bring the total cost of expenses to more or less €100 000 (R1 480 143).

The GoFundMe page had raised more than R435 000 at the time of writing, and you can find all those details here.

Now for the bit about the vintage bike.

Woodstock Moto Co. is very kindly pitching in to help raise funds to cover the expenses, and they’re willing to sweeten the deal for you.

If you enter into their charity raffle, you stand the chance of winning this vintage Yamaha XT500 bike:

What a classic beauty, right?

Woodstock Moto Co. will be restoring and rebuilding this bike – cosmetics, motor engine and everything – which they hope to have ready for the raffle by the end of June, when they hope to get Josephine over to Germany.

Raffle tickets are R500 each, and all funds will be donated to the Watts family.

Some words from Josephine’s mother:

If you are able to help in any way, please make a donation to support the cost of Josephine’s treatment. Your contribution will help make her future be the brightest it can.

To donate to Josephine Watts’ GoFundMe page, click HERE.

To purchase a ticket and enter into the charity raffle for the Yamaha XT500 bike, click HERE.