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Warkworth mother Kelly Boyce knows from first-hand experience what it is like to need urgent pediatric intensive care. Her baby daughter Dakota arrived five weeks early on January 31, needing oxygen support. While she was treated at the North Shore Hospital special care baby unit, she says she can imagine how valuable the new Starship facility will be. She is pictured with Warkworth Lions president Peter Henderson, who championed the fundraising campaign.
Kindness helps critically ill Kiwi kids The generosity of the Warkworth community has played a significant role in the success of a two-year fundraising drive for the Starship Foundation in Auckland. Warkworth Lions, who launched the campaign to raise $406,700 for a pediatric intensive care unit at Starship Hospital, hit its target this month. Club president Peter Henderson says more than $40,000 was donated across the Mahurangi district, much of it in small donations from individuals. The rest came from Lions clubs from around New Zealand, as well as the International Foundation based in Chicago. “It’s a testimony to the generosity of this
district that despite covid and all the other challenges we’ve faced over recent times, people have still been prepared to put their hands in their pockets to help others,” Henderson says. Starship’s Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is the only dedicated unit of its kind in NZ. Each year, around 1200 of New Zealand’s most critically ill and injured children are treated there. The unit also takes admissions from Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa. The money raised by Lions will cover the cost of setting up a unit, including the purchase of specialised equipment. “Almost everyone knows someone who has
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been impacted by an illness or injury who has needed the special services that Starship offers, and have been very thankful for it being there,” Henderson says. “Many within our own club have had family and friends in Starship.” Starship Foundation chief executive Jo Simon says Starship is incredibly grateful to Warkworth Lions for setting such an ambitious fundraising target and for their hard work to achieve it. “We’re blown away by the support of all the Lions Clubs who got behind this fundraising drive,” Simon says. “This type of fundraising is critical. “Every minute of every day children rely on
Starship to receive world-class healthcare, and the Starship Foundation relies on generous donations to make that happen. “But when a nationwide membership organisation such as the Lions takes on such an ambitious fundraising goal – that doesn’t happen every day!” Simon says the the expansion of Starship’s PICU was critical, as it was at capacity every second day. “Our clinicians can fix a lot of things, but they can’t fix bed shortages. “We are incredibly grateful to Warkworth Lions and thank all the Lions Clubs who have got behind this fundraising drive, and to everyone who donated to support it.”
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