This week we had the pleasure of presenting Rhonda Doyle from "Central Coast Kids in Need" with a cheque for $3,000 to assist them with the wonderful work they do.
29 years ago in 1993 a local Central Coast mum with a sick son started a volunteer fundraising group on the Central Coast to help other parents with the financial strain that a seriously ill child has on the family, and Central Coast Kids in Need was born.
Families on the Central Coast who find themselves travelling to the Children's Hospitals at Newcastle, Randwick and Westmead are ineligible for any Government support as they live too close to these services, whereas other families living over 100kms from the treating hospital do receive a small amount of assistance.
This is where Central Coast Kids in Need aims to help - they reimburse the costs associated with accommodation, travel, specialised medical equipment to improve quality of life and more recently, assistance with high cost prescriptions and specialised formulas for babies.
Over the past 17 years they have provided over $4.4 million to 3,573 Central Coast families to assist them as they battle through their daily lives caring for their child. Currently in this financial year Central Coast Kids in Need are assisting 326 kids and have outlayed $319,438.40, so our donation will go a long way to help out families in our area.
So thank you again to all our avid readers and those that love Anne's jars of pickles - your purchases from our trading trolley have been put to good use, and next time you do a wrong bias, don't cringe and think "walk of shame" to the money tin - think what a great thing you did in helping a wonderful local charity.
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President Karen and Rhonda Doyle from Central Coast Kids in Need |
