Hardship to Hope - Taranaki Health Foundation
The Taranaki Health Foundation is a charitable organisation founded in 1998 in partnership with the Taranaki District Health Board. The shared vision of the partners is to enable the best possible healthcare via fundraising for key projects that will make a significant difference to our regional community.
Help for kids and their families
Hardship to Hope Fund started as a fund available to families in the region experiencing financial hardship due to acute medical challenges. However, in the eight years it has existed, it has evolved into more than that. The fund also provides the tools for families to keep their newborns safe and to ensure their Tamariki are kept clean and healthy
What your money provides
• Pepi Pods to make sure newborns have a safe space to sleep when they leave hospital
• Safe Baby kits - warm wool blankets and natural cotton sheets so families can ensure their baby sleeps safely
• Hygiene kits - helping families make sure they have everything they need for good hygiene - including toothbrushes, shampoo and shower gel
Alsco provide the region’s hospitality services with a linen rental service. As part of this service, they guarantee the linen they provide is of high quality, natural fibres. When the bedsheets and pillowcases have reached the end of their commercial life, they are delivered to Taranaki Health Foundation to be converted into sheets for baby and children’s beds, Also sheets for the whole whanau with king, queen and single being repurposed
In kind donations like this have an incredible impact on the region. It may not seem like much – a company handing off their sheets that would be going to waste anyway. But so far the sheets supplied by ALSCO have saved over $35K in sheet purchases
If you are interested to learn more about the work of Taranaki Health Foundation and the Hardship to Hope project - listen to Volly Voices on Access Radio 104.4FM on Sunday 7th July,2024 at 2pm and repeated on Sunday 14th July 2024 where Grant & Tasha – chat about what is happening at Hardship to Hope and how they support the community.
This can also be listened to from Monday 8th July 2024 on:
Spotify open.spotify.com...
Apple Podcast podcasts.apple.com...
Access Radio website www.accessradiotaranaki.com...
Volunteering New Plymouth website www.volunteeringnewplymouth.org.nz...
If you are curious to learn more about any of the activities and / or you are interested in helping in some way please contact Wendy at Volunteering New Plymouth on 06 758 8986, Email: admin@vnp.nz or Ph/Text 022 571 4228 to take the next step.
⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️
Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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61.8% Summer
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36.5% Winter
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1.7% Other - I'll share below
Worst Xmas ever?
There's a a lot of planning that goes into Christmas day and sometimes things just don't go to plan. But it can be a good thing - a family mishap or hilarious memory that you can laugh about in Christmases to come.
Whether you burnt the dinner or were stranded at an airport...
Share your Christmas mishaps below!
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