This week’s personal post was going to be about something different to what it is now, but something happened over the past day that I wanted to write about as it made me feel really happy.
Yesterday (Friday in Australia) the majority of us were enjoying the first official day of the Easter break. Catching up with family, eating chocolate and hot cross buns, the works. Something that also happens on Good Friday is the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday appeal where the hospital tries to raise as much as it possibly can to help the children it looks after and to fund the hospital.
This has been a long tradition in Melbourne with the first fundraiser happening in 1931 and after 1976 has never failed to exceed the million dollar mark.
Don’t get me wrong, there are heaps of brilliant charities all over the world that deserve the type of attention that this Hospital receives. But, watching the appeal on television and keeping up with the talley on social media reminded me of the power of people. I think we can sometimes get a bit lost in the negative stuff and what is bad in the world, we forget that most of us are generally good people who care about things.
We don’t have the platforms of a politician or celebrity, but at the end of the day a large amount of Australians knew that there is a Hospital in Melbourne currently helping children fight cancer and other conditions and donated over eighteen million dollars (breaking the record of last years seventeen million) towards this fight.
These events happen all over the world and we don’t hear about them as much as we should. Thanks to the donations to the Royal Children’s Hospital over all these years, the facility is unbelievably equipped to help and accommodate these young kids not only medically but also to make them feel comfortable and at ease when receiving treatment. When you google the hospital itself you see colourful rooms, an aquarium, playgrounds and areas for families to stay with their children long term. You can only imagine what it would mean to the parents of these little fighters entering this big hospital.
I felt a huge sense of pride being a Melbournian and an Australian on Friday, knowing that we contributed something in order to support some little people who need it more than ever. Great job everyone xx
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