This is Ruby. Ruby is a beautiful three year old from the remote outback community of Mud Springs in the East Kimberley, Western Australia.

Until Ruby was two, she was a perfectly normal laughing, smiling, running, jumping little girl. However, in April 2011 while out fishing with her family she was bitten by a mosquito carrying Murray Valley Encephalitis. After being sent home from hospital, Ruby soon collapsed a coma and had to be airlifted to Darwin to undergo intensive treatment in a fight for survival. Ruby won that fight, however, she can no longer walk, speak or feed herself. Ruby is in a wheelchair and is tube fed for all her meals. What she hasn’t lost is her smile —

and that is what we are fighting for.