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2020 Volunteer Awards Booklet Announcing the recipients of the 2020 Minister of Health Volunteer Awards Contents About the 3 Health Volunteer of the Year 2020 4 Health Care Provider Service Outstanding Team Award Minister 7 Health Care Provider Service of Health Outstanding Achievement by an Individual Volunteer 9 Community or NGO Health Service Outstanding Team Award Awards 12 Community or NGO Health Service Outstanding Achievement by an Individual 15 Māori Health Service Outstanding Achievement The annual Minister of Health Volunteer Awards are an opportunity to recognise the thousands of 16 Pacific Health Service Outstanding unsung heroes who support New Zealand’s health Achievement and disability services. 17 Youth Health Volunteer Outstanding Organisations can choose to nominate an Achievement Team Award individual volunteer or team of volunteers. Nominations could be for long-term commitment 18 Youth Health Volunteer Outstanding and achievement, an outstanding success, or Achievement by an Individual action above and beyond the call of duty. All nominees are recognised for their contribution 19 Long Service Outstanding with a letter from the Minister of Health. A judging Achievement panel, with members drawn from across the health and disability and volunteering sectors, decides collectively each year who will stand out for special recognition. Find out more about the Minister of Health Volunteer Awards, including recipients from past years, at: www.health.govt.nz/volunteerawards This is the seventh year the Minister of Health Volunteer Awards have been held. Over this Thank you from the time, 53 teams of volunteers and 86 individuals have been recognised for their contribution to the health and wellbeing of others. In total, that’s several thousand people demonstrating how Minister of individual commitment and dedication can impact positively on others’ lives. Health This year we are celebrating 9 teams and 14 individual volunteers for the great work they are doing. Over the pages that follow, you’ll read heart-warming stories of people who have been helping out in our health system, sometimes for decades, and young people in our schools and universities who feel compelled to make a difference. Whether their focus is on helping local communities or nationwide initiatives during COVID-19 lockdown, their efforts are truly inspirational. I’d like to thank this year’s judges: Dr Nigel Millar, Chief Medical Officer at Southern District Health Board; Te Puea Winiata, CEO of Turuki Health Centre; Associate Professor Honourable Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban; Adri Isbister, Deputy Director-General Disability at the Ministry of Health; and Michelle Kitney, Chief Executive, Volunteering New Zealand. They had a difficult job selecting this year’s recipients from all the It gives me great pleasure to recognise impressive nominations received. the volunteering work that goes on Well done to all those who were nominated every day in our hospitals and across and congratulations to those recognised as our communities. From providing outstanding achievers. practical support and friendship to sharing life skills and experience, as well as through countless other activities, health volunteers make life better for New Zealanders in many ways, often without seeking recognition. Hon Chris Hipkins Minister of Health 1 2 Patu’s diverse volunteering activities include: • helping to establish and run hauora clinics in Health Volunteer Russell, for both the people of Russell and the surrounding communities of Waikare, Rawhiti, of the Year 2020 Ngaiotonga and Okiato, including marae- based eye and podiatry clinics and sessions on health and wellbeing • volunteering for the Kawakawa rural Patricia (Patu) ambulance service for 30 years • assisting people with everyday tasks, such as Whakairi shopping and cleaning up, as well as holding someone’s hand during sad times • assisting kuia and kaumātua into pensioner Sigley housing • helping people transition from prison to community living Nominated by Kororareka • making people aware of COVID-19 testing available and how to access it Marae Society • assisting with the distribution of food parcels to families and whānau during COVID-19 and being available 24/7 to take their calls From 1966 until she retired five years • coordinating and supporting communities and ago, Patu worked as a nurse in small, medical practitioners with flu injections and isolated rural Māori communities COVID-19 testing in Kororareka/Russell. mainly in the Mid North, Bay of Islands. With her immense drive and passion for nursing, While nursing was her day job, she her love for her many communities, and her ability also spent a large part of her non- to work across various agencies, Patu has been able to coordinate the right people at the right work time volunteering, a practice she time to get the right results. It’s what she does has continued in her retirement. Her whether it’s a health matter, whānau experience, colleagues describe her as a person social or educational unmet need. who is ‘always on voluntary duty’, and ‘Patu’s deeply respected for her unconditional an inspiration. willingness and generosity of spirit/wairua, her love/aroha for being able to serve and be of service, focused on serving our whānau/ families, communities in isolated rural areas. She is gifted in always turning any problem into a solution, and negative impacts into positive outcomes to make the lives of whānau/families and takiwai/communities feel more empowered and comforted, by encouragement and respect.’ Gwen Tepania-Palmer, Chairperson, Ngāti Hine Health Trust Board ‘Patu will always put herself forward to tautoko any kaupapa required for all. She is our champion, assisting whānau that need support as well as working with professionals on how to best work and connect with whānau culturally to get good health outcomes.’ Debra Rewiri, Chairperson, Kororareka Marae Society Patu also received the Outstanding Achievement Award for a Māori Health Volunteer. 3 SuperGrans Mentoring Manawatu was founded in 2005 by SuperGrans Health Care Provider Aotearoa. SuperGrans’ vision is to have skills and knowledge flowing between Service Outstanding generations and communities. Team Award In the Manawatu area, around 25 SuperGrans are actively fulfilling this vision by passing on skills for healthy, low-impact budget living. They do this through one-on-one in-home mentoring and SuperGrans hands-on workshops, providing participants with the chance to develop practical skills such as Mentoring cooking, sewing, gardening and budgeting – skills that will assist people in their daily lives and help Manawatu them flourish. Volunteers visit the clients weekly in their homes and help them towards their chosen goals. They also host a variety of events, classes and workshops. Nominated by MidCentral Attendance numbers are kept low so that every District Health Board participant can get the most out of the experience. When the SuperGrans aren’t mentoring, they are busy creating merino wool blankets to keep babies warm. They’ve been doing this for many years and it’s much appreciated within Palmerston North Hospital’s Healthy Women, Youth and Child Cluster. 4 Runner up Runner up Companion Knitters, Sewers Volunteers and Quilters Team Nominated by Auckland City Hospital Nominated by Wellington Hospitals Foundation For the past four years, the Companion Volunteers on Auckland City Hospital’s reablement wards have been providing non-clinical care for patients and their whānau, through one-on-one patient interactions as well as group sessions. They help build a connection between the outside world and For 15 years, Wellington Hospitals Foundation’s the hospital and its patients. Knitters, Sewers and Quilters Team has been making garments and other items for babies, Companion Volunteers help with arts and crafts children and their families at Wellington and group sessions, patient feedback rounds, speech Kenepuru Hospitals. therapy practice and mealtimes, or simply play games and provide conversation and general They create warm woollen singlets, cardigans, companionship. They even put on small concerts. blankets, booties and beanies for babies in the Many of the volunteers are migrants, bringing with Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and birthing units. them a multicultural perspective and a desire to Families can select items to take home and contribute to society. midwives are supplied with packs of knitting to distribute in the community. Tiny little articles are ‘The patients’ stay in the hospital becomes also lovingly created for families who lose a baby significantly more vibrant and interactive and the so they can dress them before saying goodbye. constant feedback we receive from patients, staff and family members is always exceedingly positive. On Mother’s Day, every new mum in hospital During COVID-19 lockdown Companion Volunteers receives a handcrafted quilt and knitted items were not allowed in the reablement wards and for their baby. A quilted Santa sack filled with they were so deeply missed by the patients, family knitted items goes to each baby in the hospital members and staff.’ Lindy Lely, Volunteer Manager on Christmas morning. The volunteers also make and Maria Mariotti, Companion Volunteer Coordinator incubators a more appealing environment by sewing under-rugs for them as well as covers to Due to its success in the reablement wards, the put over them to block the bright lights. Companion Volunteer programme is now being extended throughout Auckland City Hospital. The team of 228 volunteers
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