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The Grocery Charity Ball 2007
The 2007 Grocery Charity Ball held in Auckland on Friday 31st August raised over $500,000 for the Life Education Trust (www.lifeeducation.org.nz) Established by Trevor Grice in New Zealand in 1988, the Life Education Trust was based on a concept that had been set up in Australia teaching children about the wonder of life - enabling them to make decisions about any negative influences that might impede the development of their fullest potential. Nearly 20 years later, the Life Education Trust's mobile classrooms are booked out two years in advance at primary and intermediate schools throughout New Zealand - bringing a totally positive approach to health education to over 200,000 children each year. The Trust's mascot, Harold the Giraffe, has become the most recognized mascot by children in New Zealand - with 94% remembering who Harold is, and 86% remembering the messages he conveys. And although the Life Education Trust employs 40 educators taking 19 different learning modules to primary and intermediate schools across New Zealand, there is still a huge unfulfilled demand for the Programme. The donations raised at the 2007 Grocery Charity Ball will fund the construction of another mobile classroom for the Life Education Trust's use in its greatest area of need (Central Auckland), complementing the fleet of 40 mobile classrooms already on the road up and down the country. Melanoma benefits from 2010 Ball
The Melanoma Foundation of New Zealand is a registered charitable trust, a young charity formed in 2004, which is working hard to reduce the incidence and dreadful impact of melanoma in New Zealand. New Zealand has the highest melanoma incidence rate in the world. Recent figures put our incidence even ahead of Australia's. Every year around 300 New Zealanders die from melanoma and there are 2000 new diagnoses. The death rates amongst New Zealand men are even increasing! These are shocking statistics for a cancer that is largely preventable. Although most early melanoma is successfully treated through surgery, once melanoma is invasive it is a horrible cancer. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are not proven to assist in treatment of Stage 4 melanoma. Melanoma is taking the lives of many young adults as well as older New Zealanders. The Melanoma Foundation works in three goal areas:
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