imPossible: Autumn 2022 Newsletter
While we celebrated the hospital’s 150th year of service last year, the invaluable contributions of our community have been integral to our achievements.
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While we celebrated the hospital’s 150th year of service last year, the invaluable contributions of our community have been integral to our achievements.
In this special edition of The Alfred Foundation's annual publication, Impact, we focus not only on the effect that donors have had throughout 2021, but on the significant impact that philanthropy has had in our 150-year history.
This year, The Alfred is celebrating 150 years of operation. It is a celebration of the human spirit, a celebration of community and of coming together.
For some time as part of the Alfred Appeal on Fathers’ Day, The Alfred has put on a breakfast for hospital staff to say thanks for all they do. For the second year in a row now, we wanted to extend the invitation out to everyone in the community to hold their own Breakfast Party fundraiser in support of all those who provide critical care at The Alfred, from our dedicated nurses and doctors to other staff as well! This year, it will also be a celebration of 150 years of lifesaving work at The Alfred! This years event, is proudly supported by Bulla.
It was a pleasure to speak with Jacquie to hear her story. And what a story it is!
For the past 5 years Jacquie, now aged 70, has been sailing around the world on her boat. Her boat’s name is Shanti, which means peace, tranquility, bliss & the ability to rise above stress and adversity. As Jacquie says “kind of sums up my circumnavigation as well as my current journey with Leukaemia.”
Lisa has three grown children and lives with her husband Shane in Mildura, a 6-hour drive from Melbourne. Her and her husband have a morning ritual to get up early and go for a walk along the beautiful Murray River. In late 2019 & early 2020 it became increasingly difficult to go for those walks. She says, “I was just in so much pain, those morning walks became impossible.” When physio and pilates made no difference, Lisa went to her doctor. After a series of tests and scans she received the devastating diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma – A type of blood cancer.
For years as part of our Alfred Appeal on Fathers’ Day, The Alfred has hosted a breakfast for hospital staff to say thanks for all they do. This year we wanted to extend the invitation out to everyone in the community to hold their own Virtual Breakfast Party in support of all those who provide critical care at The Alfred, including our dedicated nurses, doctors and other staff!
Here at The Alfred Foundation we’d like to shout out our thanks and appreciation to this dream team – Conor, Charlie and Kristian – who donated their birthdays to The Alfred by running an online fundraiser to support The Alfred’s frontline health staff in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic.
In November 2019, for the second time around, a dedicated group of friends organised a walkathon to raise funds for The Alfred in loving memory of their dear friend, Mahima.