SCOTS PGC College in Warwick has just become the first school to raise money for a charity that transports children with severe illnesses to hospitals for medical treatment.
Little Wings is a non-profit organisation and its mission is to give free flight and ground transport to children (and their families) who live in rural and regional Queensland and New South Wales. With a hangar built recently in Brisbane and Little Wings opening their first Queensland base at Archerfield, this is a service we’re likely to hear more about in the future.
The school now has a host of bright blue wheelie bins so that children can earn money by recycling bottles and cans then donate the proceeds to Little Wings as part of their Kids Helping Kids Containers for Change campaign.
According to Little Wings, 20 bottles equals one litre of fuel.
Little Wings was started about 10 years ago to provide end-to-end transport for children with severe illnesses, where their geographical situation made normal transport to and from hospital problematic.
The charity partners with four hospitals and flies in and out of 55 regions across NSW, ACT and Queensland, creating ‘a pathway of free access for children to receive specialised medical treatments at major metropolitan hospital locations’. It also flies specialists out to remote areas for appointments.
All the pilots and drivers are volunteers. In fact, the organisation is run almost entirely by volunteers and only relies on paid staff for 10 per cent of its operations.
