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Safe and Healthy Children and Families
The Safe and Healthy Children and Families pillar focuses on programs, activities and events that increase people’s ability to be safer, healthier and more active members of the community.
Kids Foundation
The KIDS Foundation and Alcoa of Australia share a common goal in injury prevention and both hold safety as a core value.
The KIDS Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to childhood injury prevention and recovery including delivering quality safety education programs and services in schools.
The partnership between KIDS Foundation, Alcoa Foundation and Alcoa in Australia began in 2005 and supports KIDS Foundation’s nationally recognised KIDS Safety Club school safety program, Safety 4 KIDS on-site program, Injury Free Day, Camp Phoenix and Charity Challenge.
The partnership has helped shape the success of both Alcoa’s internal safety drive and KIDS Foundation’s community safety outreach programs in schools across Australia, and its vital work helping burns and injury survivors.
Camp Phoenix 2009
More than 60 burn survivors and their families from across Australia attended the Burn Survivors Network’s annual Camp Phoenix held in Anglesea, Victoria, from August 23 - 26.
Camp Phoenix provides burn survivors and their families with an opportunity to be just one of the crowd as they share experiences, build friendships and take part in four days of action-packed fun-filled activities.
In a major change this year, Camp Phoenix was held in Victoria to give Black Saturday burn survivors an opportunity to attend the camp at no cost. It also enabled 18 Alcoa employees to participate in the camp as volunteers.
Facilitated by the KIDS Foundation, The Burn Survivors Network and Camp Phoenix have been running for nine years and supporting hundreds of burns survivors and their families, both children and adults.
 For more information about the Burn Survivors’ Network or Camp Phoenix contact the Burn Survivors’ Network on 1300 734 733 or visit www.kidsfoundation.org.au
Our bright ideas supporting local health
Visitors to Point Henry may have noticed the new signs gracing the North Gate, South Gate, Main Entrance, and 001 Entrance.
In 2009, the Point Henry Employee Suggestion Scheme has nominated the Andrew Love Cancer Centre as their chosen charity and the sign will highlight how much money has been raised for the centre throughout the year.
Depicted on the sign is Matilda Pretty - the face of the 2007 Geelong Hospital Winter Appeal - with her sister Alice.
Matilda’s story
In August 2006, Kylie Pretty took her daughter Matilda to the Emergency Department after unusual bruises developed on the three-and-a-half-year-old’s knees. It was a Saturday afternoon and the Geelong Hospital Emergency Department was chaotically busy.
After waiting in the Emergency Department as the doctors carried out tests, Matilda was moved to a private consultation room. It was then that Kylie and husband Stuart were told the devastating news – their daughter had Leukaemia.
“It was the biggest shock – a life-changing moment. You never think that it could happen to you, that this type of thing happens to other families. But here we were and it was just overwhelming,” Kylie said.
Following the diagnosis, Matilda began intensive treatment, making regular trips to Melbourne as well as staying in the Children’s Ward at Geelong Hospital and receiving treatment at the Andrew Love Cancer Centre.
After her initial treatment, ‘Tilly’ continued her maintenance treatment every month at the Andrew Love Cancer Centre, where an oncologist from the Royal Children’s Hospital would visit, saving the family a trip to Melbourne each month.
Tilly has since finished her treatment and is on the road to recovery, this year starting Grade One. According to Tilly’s teachers, she is a bubbly little girl with loads of energy.
For more information on Geelong Hospital Appeal and to read more stories like Matilda’s, log on to http://www.barwonhealth.org.au/geelonghospitalappeal/
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