Through our support and involvement with the Royal Children’s Hospital, Wealth Built Right (WBR) were invited to attend a corporate breakfast hosted by the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation at Wah Wah Gee on The Pier in Geelong.
In 2020 the Royal Children’s Hospital will celebrate its 150th anniversary, an incredible milestone of providing world leading healthcare to the some of Victoria’s sickest kids. We heard from the Foundation’s CEO, Sue Hunt who shared the original vision of the two doctors responsible for initiating the hospital which was to “…help sick and injured children at no cost to families”, a vision that continues today.
As part of the 150th celebrations the RCH Foundation is presenting the Me & Uoo Uoo Art Trail to be held across Melbourne and, thanks to support of Frank Costa AO, across Geelong as well in partnership with the Barwon Health Foundation. The Uoo Uoo sculptures will be decorated by well-known and emerging artists and will be placed in various locations around Geelong and Melbourne. The original Uoo Uoo has been created by a Melbourne artist Alexander Knox, its shape being a combination of a wombat and a dugong.
Like many others, WBR has a special affiliation with the RCH. Terry’s great friends, Grant and Margie Sheldon tragically lost their son, Kyle in February 2016 at the age of 26 to an aggressive bowel cancer. In his memory and as a legacy to Kyle, Grant and Margie set up the Kyle Sheldon Memorial Fund which is auspices through the RCH Foundation. Kyle spent the first two years of his life at the Royal Children’s to treat his short bowel condition and despite the challenges he faced he went on to live a life full of courage and determination, a spirit that lives on at the family’s Annual Memorial Golf Day which Wealth Built Right takes great pleasure in supporting each year.
So, this brings us to the Me & Uoo Uoo Art Trail. Because of the support WBR has already given the RCH Foundation we’ve been invited to partner with them as a Sculpture Sponsor and we’re delighted to be in a position to support this initiative and our local Geelong community via its partnership with the Barwon Health Foundation.
It’s a privilege to play a small, but very important part in the future of paediatric healthcare for our state and we can’t wait to share our Uoo Uoo with you!
By Terry Powell – Managing Director
