A YOUNG girl waiting for a kidney transplant has been given her own laptop so she can do her school work at home.

Jasmine Bell, ten, from Loftus, east Cleveland, who has chronic renal failure, undergoes about 15 hours of dialysis at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI), in Newcastle, each week.

She was diagnosed with kidney failure when she was seven, when she started falling asleep in lessons and was unable to walk to school or play with other children. Since then, she has undergone five operations.

Her mother, Deborah, wrote to Promise Dreams, a national charity which helps seriously and terminally-ill children and their families.

Thanks to the charity, Jasmine now has a laptop, which her mother said had made a massive difference to her daughter's life.

To help with fundraising for Jasmine, or the haemodialysis ward at the RVI, call (01287) 644469. For more details about Promise Dreams, call (01902) 378597.