Wests Tigers community team is preparing for the final leg of this season’s regional road trip, which has already seen the crew cover more than 2,500km’s in just a few days.
The tour, which kicked off in July, has delivered footy clinics in Dubbo, Broken Hill, Menindee and Condobolin. The final visit on the itinerary to the Hunter region was pushed back due to inclement weather but has been rescheduled for October 4.
This regional road trip is about much more than kicking a football. It’s also about providing education and generating awareness of cardiac arrest in remote and rural areas.
The club made a commitment many months ago to partner with the Michael Hughes Foundation and Heart180 to distribute 86 life-saving defibrillators in regional NSW.
These defibrillators, or AED’s as they are known, can be the difference between life and death when a person goes into cardiac arrest.
As Wests Tigers Community Manager, Keehan Diamond explains, this joint initiative has been successful on many levels.
“It’s been win-win every way you look at it.
“Wests Tigers, the Michael Hughes Foundation and Heart180 share a similar objective, and that is to make a positive difference in regional areas.
Not only have we been having fun with all the footy clinics, but we’ve been offering potentially life-saving education about cardiac arrest.
Keehan Diamond
“We’ve distributed about 80 AEDs to the local Aboriginal Land Council in many areas that we’ve visited, and this is such an important contribution to these communities.
“We can now finish what we started with the rescheduled visits to the Hunter next week.”
The final two AED/CPR and community clinics will be at Mindaribba and Hinton on Tuesday 4th October.
