A FUNDRAISING campaign has been launched to help a schoolboy struck by a car in the outskirts of east Belfast.
Robbie Shaw (12) remains seriously ill in hospital following the accident on the Ballygowan Road, close to Roselawn cemetery, last Wednesday.
The little boy from Belfast is a talented footballer and since the crash, the football community has rallied round him and his family.
In a bid to help, Braniel Mini Soccer football team, where the schoolboy's younger brother plays, have embarked on raising funds.
A fundraising page has been set up, which last night had already raised more than £400.
Stephen Nixon, founder and treasurer of Braniel Mini soccer, said they wanted to "help the Shaw family with costs incurred as a result of the horrendous accident suffered by their eldest son".
He added that the Shaw family "are a big part of life in east Belfast mainly football".
"We would like to give something back to them for what their family has put into east Belfast and the greater footballing scene," he said.
It is believed Robbie, a pupil at the Royal Belfast Academical Institute, had just got off a bus on his way home from school when he was hit.
