Waikato Burn Support Charitable Trust Inc.

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This site has had a presence on the web since 12 October 2000:         Our Motto remains... "By Helping Others, We Also Help Ourselves".

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Next Board Meeting: Tuesday 14 July 2009
Agenda for Next Board Meeting now available for Board Members.
Minutes of last meeting held 28 April 09 available for Board Members. 

Meet Our Education Officer..
Colleen works with children, youth and adults working to reduce the incidence of preventable burn related accidents...

New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy: News No 18 June 09

Burns & scalds: Information, Treatment, Recovery...

An external burn is damage to your skin's tissues caused by either direct contact with something hot, such as fire, or by radiated heat from an extreme source, such as the sun. Burns can also be caused by certain chemicals, electricity and friction. A scald is a burn that is caused by a hot liquid or steam. Scalds are managed in the same way as burns.  Read more...

Also from the NHS UK Choices Web Site: Honey for burns!

“Honey has been found to be better at aiding burn recovery than standard treatments used by the NHS,” the Daily Mail reported. The newspaper said that scientists had pooled data from 19 trials involving more than 2,500 patients with various wounds. They found that mild to moderate burns took less time to heal when honey was applied than some widely used dressings. Read more...

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Click to find out more about the Happy Blue Whale from Waikato Burn Support...
 


Read our Survivors Stories
PowerPoint presentation featuring Timothy's Story
 


Scalds!  Bad news for children -visit the Child Safety Foundation web site and read 18 month old Te-arna's story NOW and work to prevent this happening in YOUR home!  Te-arna's story...

WBS publication makes front page of the new SafeKids Newsletter with Carol Hirchfeld.  You can download the full Safekids September 2008 newsletter in pdf format by clicking the link.  If you don't have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to allow you to read pdf documents you can download it here >


Carol Hirchfeld shows off the WBS Keeping Safe Careful & Cool book to children in class...

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Delores Lekowski's Articles Available now! 
Delores is the author of 'The Hurting Angels', a book with a vital message for children, young people and parents.  When she was 10 years old, she was burning trash in her backyard when her dress caught fire. She was severely burned over 85 percent of her body and was not expected to live. She had many setbacks over the course of the painful and frightening year she spent in the hospital. She underwent countless surgeries and therapy. But with the love of her family, the grace of God and an abiding optimism and faith, she miraculously survived. 

Delores has gone on to lead a full and satisfying life. She has 3 children and 8 grandchildren. She is active in the Phoenix Society (an organization for burn survivors and their families) and works with other burn and trauma survivors, helping them to manage the various social, school and job situations that can be so intimidating when someone feels "different."

We learned that in her intense desire to help others, Delores had written a message to all children who had suffered burns, illness or other trauma that might hurt their self-esteem. She called it "The Hurting Angels." 

All Delores wanted was to get her words of hope into the hands of these children, to assure them that they were special, that it was OK to be sad, and that the emotional and physical pain would heal. Delores is living proof of that. 

Delores has gone on to write many articles targeted at burn prevention. Many of those are on this web site...
[Valentine][Safety At the Gas pumps] [A Square Box] [Hurting Angels] [Tragedy At A Night Club]  [College Fires & Staying Safe] [How Safe Is Our Clothing?] [Preventing Heating Related Fires]

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Frankton Kindy

WBS Education Officer Colleen Caldwell visiting Frankton Kindergarten. 

IPNANZ UPDATE #57  –  30 JUNE 2009

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More on burns...check these two helpful sites...

The BBCc H2G2 Site...
To find out more about h2g2 take the tour... or visit their Home Page >>>>>>>>h2g2 Logo

The Everybody Site: everybody aims to provide useful and accurate consumer health information for New Zealanders. It iseverybody Logo written and reviewed by medical writers, consumer health organisations and health professionals.  everybody is a consumer health information resource is owned and published by CMPMedica (NZ) Ltd. The product is distributed in print (free to New Zealand GPs) and on the internet.

FREE from WBS: Children's (parents will enjoy them too) Books!  Keeping Safe Careful &  Cool follow the adventures of our WBS burn prevention characters as they learn how to STOP preventable burn related accidents dead in their tracks.  More ...

BATH BAROMETERS
Read about our bathwater barometers -it may save your baby or young child!

The Blue Whale

Notice Board Poster What To Do to Minimize
Preventable Burn Related Accidents...

 

This could prevent a tragedy >>> Preventing Heating Related  Fires...

 AbigailThe New Zealand National Burn Centre
National Burn Centre On the web: http://www.nationalburnservice.co.nz/nbc/  Find out about our National Burn Unit www.burn.org.nz. 

Have you read
Jacqui's Story?

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SURVIVORS STORIES
HappyRead in their own words the stories of burn survivors who have "been there and can tell it like it is". "I'm a Burn Survivor" - Timothy's Story,  Robyn's StoryMiranda's Story, Jacqui's Story, Nicole Mize -45% Burns, Michele's Story  If you are a burn survivor find out how you could add your own story and encourage others by clicking anyone of these links and reading more...
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KEEPING SAFE CAREFUL & COOL: Get your copy today!

Keeping Safe Book.Read all about this and our featured burn survivor Timothy Grainger McDonald featured on the 20/20 Programme on Sunday evening the 30th June 02 by clicking the picture on the left. 

View photos online of our Book Launch at  Pukenui School, Te Kuiti by clicking the book image on the left.  Thank you.

To view more literature available from WBS visit our Literature site.

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BURN PREVENTION EDUCATION PROGRAMME
Waikato Burn Support runs a full programme in schools throughout the Waikato educating towards burn prevention and working towards lowering the incidence of burn related PREVENTABLE accidents in school and the home.  Find out more and book your school or class...

Read Letters of Appreciation from schools that have used our programme...

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Check out...

Some Golden Rules of Burn Prevention

and print a free poster for your home, school, business or work notice board!

ALL ABOUT WBS
You can find out all about WBS, what we do and how we do it here: About WBS
This section covers matters of governance, organisation, aims & purposes, membership, activities, funding and so on.

Founder & Pioneer of WBS
Our Founder and Pioneer of the work of Waikato Burn Support is Trish Ball.  Her story and pictures as she receives her QSM in recognition of her services to the community are recorded here: Founder & Pioneer

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