Media
release
8th
March 2010.
MANNEQUIN BABY
ASSISTS EMERGENCY STAFF WITH TRAINING.
Kidz
First Children’s Hospital Emergency Department were delighted today when they
were presented with an infant mannequin by representatives from local Kids in
Cars charity.
The
mannequin is designed for scenario based training for a number of situations
including catheterization, tracheotomy’s and IV insertion.
Emergency
nurse educator, Cate Flecknety was thrilled to receive her new training tool.
“We
can do such a large variety of procedures on the baby, and it really gives the
staff an opportunity to practise procedures and build confidence”.
Senior
Medical Officer, Shane Greaves was also on hand to accept the donation,
“Tools
like this are great to teach procedures that are not commonly done”, he said.
The
department staff has named the mannequin HUGGI,
after one of the major sponsors.
Nigel
Karl, Chair of the Kids in Cars charity explained how the $5300.00 was raised.
“We
are just a group of guys that are passionate about cars and car racing, but we
also have a social conscience and decided to raise money to give something
back”.
“Last
October we had a Fun Day at Pukekohe Racecourse and were able to raise this
money and also give some kids from Kidz First Community a pass so all their
activities for the day were free – the smiles on their faces made all the
stress of organising a huge event worthwhile”.
Kids
in Cars also received support from James [Huggi] Urquhart of Wild Card Racing
in Karaka, who paid for the hire of the racecourse.
“I
have two healthy kids and a keen interest in car racing”, said James, “this is
just a small thing I can do to help the kids in our community”.
K.I.C brings some Christmas cheer to two auckland families
K.I.C. wish to thank the following companies for their support and donations towards this special Christmas eve surprise.
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Good morning all,car fans young and old!
As you know, here at KIC we're crazy about our
cars and trucks just ask the folks at
Aviva car insurance but what
we're really crazy about is bringing a smile
to the faces of these
brave kids.
KIC was asked to help out young
Josh yesterday,
he is living with cancer and he has an 8% chance of
coming through this terrible illness.JOSH IS THE RIPE OLD AGE OF 13 !!!!
Nigel was called on Monday night by a frantic Chris
Robbins from
John Andrew Ford Josh was arriving from Palmerston North
on Tuesday morning
at 8.30 for a day out at Pukekohe Park with Fabian
Coulthard.
The only problem was that the car that had been organized to
take Josh for a ride
was no longer available – due to a medical illness
with the owner’s family.
So as we say I “KICed” into action, many phone
calls later
we had not one car but four.
KIC would like to express
their thanks to Geri from Punch, Tracey and Angus Fogg
Tthe crew from
LG NZ, and the lads from the motor sport fraternity
Craig Corliss – it
was Craig’s AU Falcon Supercar that Josh went for a spin in.
Josh has made a “Bucket List” and he is also making
a Documentary about himself
one of his items on his bucket List was
to go around Pukekohe in a race car.
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We all arrived at the track at 10.00am and Josh
interviewed Fabian.
Josh has got great talent and could have a job as a
TV presenter.
After a couple of fun runs in the K.I.C.
car and the LG
shadow car, the real fun was about to start.
Craig Corliss arrived with an AU Falcon – an ex V8 supercar
after he prepared the car, Josh and
Fabian went fora spin.
As you can see the photos tell it all.
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This day was filmed by the crew of “Close Up”. This is to be
aired either tonight Wednesday or tomorrow night – please make sure
that you can watch this show,
and you can see Josh’s fun day at the
track.
K.I.C. would again express their thanks to all those people and
companies that
came to the rescue of young josh to make this day happen
for him..
To watch the Close Up show - click here.
http://www.childcarecentre.co.nz/wcc-race-team-support-kids-in-cars/
"KIC goes all Blue for the All Ford Day"
KIC was invited by the Auckland Ford dealerships to
be a part of the 2009 All Ford Day held on Sunday 5th
April 2009.
KIC was represented by Nigel, Daniel, Bryan, Martin,
Nick, Dave and Carley.
"thank you to all the crew for a huge day"
A big effort from all - Nigel.
We were given the task of being the exclusive
supplier of drinks on the day – Man Auckland put on a fantastically scorching
hot day – great for our drink sales.
Boy were we all run off our feet.
K.I.C. would like to express our thanks to Sara
Perry form
John Andrew Ford & Mazda for giving us this event to run.
The crowds rolled in from 10pm and didn’t stop till
after 3pm. The numbers
were up from last year and so was the number of Blue
Ovals on display.
KIC wish to thank the following sponsors
for their contribution for the day...
For next year’s detail please go to http://www.allfordday.com to register and
for any
more information regarding this event.
Also keep an eye out on the KIC site for future
events.