A Life-Changing Science Project!
Six Senior St Catherine's girls are soon to launch their own book
A group of St Catherine's Science students will launch their very own ‘science project' with a difference this month.
Working with KIDS Foundation, The Royal Children's Hospital and Akorn Educational Services, the girls' journal - Sharing the Journey to Healing - will be launched at St Catherine's at 11.00am on Friday 28 November. Refreshments will be served.
Following the launch, 500 journals will be distributed to children and young people in hospitals all around Australia who are survivors of burn injuries, to assist in their recovery and rehabilitation.
At the commencement of the project, the students were given their brief by Susie O'Neill, CEO of KIDS Foundation. The girls were asked to design the journal in such a way that it would be a record for each child, as they journeyed along the road to recovery. The journal would also need to be a book which gave each child's health care professionals a glimpse into the girl or boy's' emotional shape. The group were unfamiliar with the world of a burns survivor, so they met with staff from the Burns Unit at The Royal Children's Hospital where they learnt about treatment and diet; a helpful first insight.
Following this excursion, the girls met with Chris Doulis, a burns survivor who, at 14 years of age, was playing ‘pyroball' (a game played with a tennis ball that is on fire) with his friends. Chris told of how, on this occasion, he added fuel to the ball not realising that it was still burning, and as a result, suffered third degree burns to 75% of his body. Chris Doulis, along with other burns survivors, the students and Susie O'Neill, CEO of KIDS Foundation will be at the launch of the journal on Friday 28 November.
For all media enquiries about Sharing the Journey to Healing, please contact the Marketing Office.