The parents of ‘Baby Lucky’ previously launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for an ‘eco hotel’ in Mexico, Daily Mail Australia can exclusively reveal.
Madhu and Pan Ahimsa sought to raise $10,000 in early 2020 for a ‘non-profit vegan restaurant, boutique eco-hotel and tattoo studio’ in Tulum, Mexico.
They allegedly offered incentives to encourage donations, including free accommodation, breakfast and yoga classes but the project was never completed.
The couple’s then seven-week-old newborn was flown from Bali to the Gold Coast for life-saving surgery in February after generous Aussies donated nearly $200,000 behind a highly emotional publicity campaign in the Australian media.
However, eyebrows have been raised after the family returned to Bali last week where they are renovating a property.
Daily Mail Australia can exclusively reveal that a couple who call themselves Honey and Pan Ahimsa (pictured with their son) are trying to raise $10,000 for a ‘non-profit vegan restaurant, boutique eco-hotel and tattoo studio’ in Tulum, Mexico, in 2020. at first The project was never completed and all mentions of it have been scrubbed from their social media accounts
The couple poses to crowd fund a non-profit vegan restaurant / boutique eco hotel / tattoo studio / orphanage that was never built. They claim it never opened because of the epidemic
The couple’s Mexico fundraising effort — billed as a project to help underprivileged and orphaned children in Mexico — is believed to have raised about half of the $10,000 goal.
However, after the project was abandoned, all traces of it were removed from the Internet. Ms Ahings claimed she explained its disappearance on her Instagram page at the time.
Daily Mail Australia exclusively revealed last week that the Aman family have returned to Bali where they are renovating a villa.
She told Daily Mail Australia that she and her husband had shut down the Tulum venture due to the coronavirus pandemic.
‘The Tulum project was canceled due to Covid and the world was completely shut down for two years,’ he said.
‘We decided to return to Australia with our son because it was the safest decision with a child during the global pandemic.
‘The aim was to help orphans as I had lost both my parents (I was taken away from my mother at the age of eight after experiences no child should have and my father was killed by a truck when I was 18).’
Ms Ahings added: ‘The project in Tulum collapsed and the GoFundMe was deleted.
‘We haven’t even raised half of that GoFundMe goal. Most of the donations were made by my partner’s mother who donated more than 80 per cent of what was raised.’
Ms. Ahins did not respond to any questions about what happened to the rest of the money.
Daily Mail Australia revealed last week that the family recently returned to Bali where they are renovating a villa.
This publication does not suggest that money from Baby Lucky’s GoFundMe was misappropriated or that his illness was not serious.
Baby Lucky’s Medevac from Indonesia to Australia was funded online with donations from Australians and others who gave more than $190,000
Ms Ahings insisted ‘no money from the Lucky Love GoFundMe was used for anything other than what was stated on the GoFundMe page’.
Ms Ahings, born Rachel Etty, previously told Daily Mail Australia that ‘no money from the Lucky Love GoFundMe was used for anything other than what was mentioned on the GoFundMe page’.
He insisted that their new home in Bali was a rental and that they were only paying $83 a week.
Ms. Ahingas regularly posts pictures of the family’s far-flung trips on her Instagram account. Above, in a premium or business class seat
But he has told close friends that he paid $50,000 for a 30-year lease on the property.
Ms Ahings did not directly address the $50,000 claim when questioned by Daily Mail Australia.
Instead, she said she and her husband plan to launch an ‘affordable online course sharing every step of renting/renovating in Bali for anyone who wants to do it’.
After the failure of the Mexico project in 2020, the couple and their young son later traveled to Canada where Pan, real name Graham White, grew up.
Later that year, they converted a school bus for a tour of the United States before heading to Greece.
Miss Ahimsa travels to Santorini, Greece after the failure of the crowd-funded Tulum project
Ms. Ahingas regularly posts pictures of the family’s far-flung trips on her Instagram account.
It comes as a close family friend and spokesman distanced himself from Ms Ahimsa and her partner after revelations they had returned to Bali to renovate a house.
Bailey Scarlett, an Only Fans model and actress who served as the de facto media spokeswoman for baby Lucky’s parents, released a statement Monday claiming she only acted in ‘good faith’ to raise funds for the family.
She wrote in an Instagram story, ‘I had never connected with these people before, I rushed to the hospital to help complete strangers because I felt like a mother for them.
Bailey Scarlett, a fan-only model and actress who served as the de facto media spokesperson for baby Lucky’s parents Honey and Pan Ahimsa in February, released a statement Monday distancing herself from them.