The Super Max & Bryce project spreads love, hope, happiness and comfort to children with cancer through gifts of Super Max the Turtle night lights. These special night lights, created by the Cloud b organisation, are designed to be easily sanitised so they can be taken to even the strictest of hospital environments to help bring peaceful, healthy and healing sleep to children in treatment. The project was started in August, 2016 by nine year old Bryce from the Gold Coast of Australia. As he watched his mom go through multiple cancer related surgeries and a rigorous cancer treatment program, Bryce couldn't imagine how scary it would be to be a child going through the same thing. He decided to take action at his school, St Andrews, by raising money to purchase Super Max the Turtles for children with cancer. His initial goal was six turtle night lights. By the end of 2016, Bryce had raised enough money to give 244 turtle night lights to children with cancer. In 2017, Bryce extended his goal and raised enough to give out 804 night lights - one for every single child who was diagnosed with cancer in Australia that year. Inspired to do more, Bryce's goal for every year moving forward is to not only give a Super Max the Turtle to every child who is diagnosed with cancer in both Australia and New Zealand (that's 1,000 night lights) but also to raise enough to give every superparent/carer a small gift with stars on it. It is our hope that the stars help to bring light and warmth into what can often be a dark and isolating journey for superhero children and their parents/carers. Through these stars, we are all connected.
Kids Capers Childcare are acknowledging Epilepsy Awareness Month for March 2022.
Around 65 million people in the world live with epilepsy, making it one of the most common neurological disorder. Epilepsy is a medical condition that affects the brain and causes seizures. Not all people who have seizures are diagnosed with epilepsy. In Australia, around 10% of the population will experience a seizure in their lifetime, but much fewer will be diagnosed with epilepsy. At the moment around 250,000 Australians, or 1% of our population, live with epilepsy.
In July 2020 one of our Centre families experienced the direct effects of lung cancer with a mother passing away from this terrible disease. The whole Capers Early Learning Clayfield community were highly affected by this and as such arranged a “Night Under the Stars” event as a fundraiser for the Lung Cancer Foundation Australia. This was highly successful thanks to the generosity of community families and local businesses.
The evening was an amazing achievement with over 100 families purchasing tickets and attending. While watching The Lion King on the huge outdoor screen, families contributed further by purchasing raffle tickets and bidding on silent auction items. The event raised over $7,000 and the impacted family was overwhelmed with the support and encouragement from the whole Capers family.
Project Care Bags is an initiative to provide “Care Bags” for those going into foster care or leaving foster care to go out on their own. Each bag contains a variety of useful and necessary items including toiletries. The team at Capers Early Learning and our wonderful communities of families donated generously to the cause and as such we were able to positively support Project Care Bags.
National Pyjama Day is all about wearing your favourite pair of PJ's to help The Pyjama Foundation raise much-needed awareness and funds for children in foster care.
With the money raised from National Pyjama Day, you’ll be helping us offer learning skills to more than 1000 children, fund educational resources and help provide stable, positive relationships. So this 23 July put on your favourite PJ's, make a donation, and get your friends/colleagues involved!
