...Awareness Month Efforts St Dominic’s Primary School St Dominic’s Primary in Camberwell supported our February Awareness Month by holding a HeartKids Day and making their Friday school assembly, run by 1/2C, all about CHD and HeartKids. The children re-enacted scenarios where a sick baby is bought to hospital by their parents and diagnosed with a heart condition by doctors and nurses, and
they gave the school some statistics about the prevalence of CHD in our community. With the combination of merchandise sold, a gold coin donation for wearing a splash of red, collection tins, and other activities including a colouring competition, the school raised a grand total of over $1,300 for HeartKids.
Parkmore Poultry and Game Parkmore Poultry and Game in Parkmore Shopping Centre, Keysborough, raised money for HeartKids on 14th February. Katie Hammill and Lauren Johnson spent the day cooking samples at the front of the store for people to have a free taste test - they cooked hundreds of chicken ribs! They asked people for a gold coin donation for HeartKids and everyone who donated was given a heart-shaped chocolate! Katie and Lauren, who each have a heart child, had decorated the shop with lots of balloons and posters and they also handed out flyers for awareness. At the end of the day they had raised $550.55 and are now looking forward to promoting HeartKids again next year!
Parkmore Poultry and Game offe red free taste tests and gave out free chocolate hearts for all gold coin donatio ns
Echuca Awareness
It was heart child Chelsea’s and her family’s goal to raise awareness of childhood heart disease during February’s HeartKids Awareness Month Donation boxes were placed at Echuca NAB, Two Tarts Juice Bar and Numanz Embroidery for the whole month of February. A colouring competition for kids and a HeartKids smoothie were very popular at Two Tarts Juice Bar to help raise awareness.
There was also a stall at the Moama Market where donated soft toys were sold, a sausage sizzle was held at Bunnings and profits donated to Heartkids. It was a successful month with many more people now aware of the effects of childhood heart disease and the support HeartKids gives to the families affected. A special thank you to Lorelle and staff at Two Tarts Juice Bar and Catering, NAB Echuca, Numanz Embroidery, Bunnings Echuca, Rods Meats, Moama Bakery and Beverly Crawley (soft toys).
Photos (L to R): Chelsea at the sausage sizzle at Bunnings, at Moama Market, with her brother Zachary at the Juice Bar and promoting the HeartKids smoothie
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