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Celebrating Cerebral Palsy Week<br />
DuRING AuGuST THE Cerebral Palsy<br />
Association of Western Australia, one of the<br />
club’s aligned charities for the 2005 season,<br />
held it’s annual Cerebral Palsy Awareness<br />
Week in order to celebrate the achievements<br />
of people living with cerebral palsy, raise<br />
awareness, understanding and acceptance<br />
of cerebral palsy, provide a forum for people<br />
with cerebral palsy to exchange ideas, offer<br />
an insight to living with a disability and to<br />
update on innovations in the disability sector.<br />
The theme for the week was “Speaking Out”.<br />
It was all about giving people with cerebral<br />
palsy a chance to have a voice and be heard<br />
on a range of issues that affect them and<br />
Bravery<br />
Awards<br />
the people who support them. The focus was<br />
on breaking down barriers and promoting<br />
inclusion of people with all forms of disability<br />
in their local communities.<br />
As Fiona Given, an inspirational woman who<br />
has cerebral palsy and a CP Week keynote<br />
speaker, said, “People with CP need a voice<br />
of their own. We need to be able to express<br />
our opinions, articulate our dreams and make<br />
our own decisions…”<br />
The week was a great success with over<br />
400 people attending a wide range of thought<br />
provoking, and sometimes controversial,<br />
seminars and workshops that were designed<br />
to educate, challenge and inspire.<br />
THE FREMANTLE <strong>Football</strong> <strong>Club</strong> joined with<br />
the Paediatric Ward at <strong>Fremantle</strong> Hospital on<br />
Tuesday 26 July to hold the annual Bravery<br />
Awards at <strong>Fremantle</strong> Oval.<br />
The awards mark the amazing strength and<br />
determination of the children who pass through<br />
the hospital’s wards each year.<br />
The club and <strong>Fremantle</strong> Hospital have an ongoing<br />
relationship that has existed since the<br />
formation of the club in 1995 and the Bravery<br />
Awards have become a feature of that unique<br />
relationship over the years.<br />
This year, the tenth year of the awards,<br />
children from other hospitals across the South<br />
Metropolitan Area Health Service were also<br />
recognised with kids from Armadale-Kelmscott<br />
Memorial Hospital and Rockingham/Kwinana<br />
District Hospital both being nominated.<br />
<strong>Club</strong> President Rick Hart welcomed the<br />
recipients and their guests and <strong>Fremantle</strong><br />
Player Welfare <strong>Man</strong>ager Lee Walker presented<br />
each of the 12 patients with awards for their<br />
bravery during hospitalisation.<br />
Players Graham Polak, Aaron Sandilands,<br />
David Mundy and Paul Medhurst then<br />
presented the children with <strong>Fremantle</strong> packs,<br />
which included tickets to the Richmond game,<br />
movie tickets and their Bravery Certificate.<br />
<strong>Fremantle</strong> <strong>Football</strong> <strong>Club</strong> player Paul Hasleby<br />
said that the bravery shown by the children was<br />
great inspiration for him and his team-mates.<br />
“These kids are truly amazing,” he said.<br />
“What they go through really puts things into<br />
perspective and if we can draw even just a<br />
little bit of their courage and determination…<br />
it would be great.”<br />
This year’s recipients of awards were: Jonathon<br />
Butterfield of Bunbury, Adrian Giannini of<br />
<strong>Man</strong>durah, Michael Horsten of Jandakot, Grant<br />
Stagg of Gosnells, Nikki Cox of Spearwood, Dylan<br />
Tate of Bicton, Caitlin McDonald of Port Kennedy,<br />
Rahnuma Islam of Langford, Connor Clifton of<br />
Baldivis, Emily Dean of <strong>Man</strong>durah, Nathan Johns<br />
of Banjup and Michelle Dale of Parkwood.<br />
Congratulations to each of you for being<br />
recognised for the spirit and courage that you<br />
have shown in the face of adversity.<br />
Photos by Peter Northcott<br />
Charities<br />
If you would like to learn more about cerebral<br />
palsy and the great work of the Cerebral Palsy<br />
Association visit their website at<br />
www.cpawa.com.au. To make a donation<br />
to the Association, call 944 02 0.<br />
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