COMMUNITY NEWS - Uniform recycling success
- Ronalyn
- 5 days ago
- 2 min read
A pilot Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) uniform recycling program has proven to be a big success according to former paramedic and Maleny Local Ambulance
Committee (LAC) President Ken Nipperess.
A partnership between Uniforms 4 Kids (U4K) and Maleny, Port Douglas, Maryborough and Cooroy stations and their LACs has produced more than 900 items out of discarded paramedic and emergency medical dispatcher (EMD) uniforms to support our most vulnerable community members.
So far, the upcycled items have been donated to community members of all ages and include young children’s clothes, bags, pencil cases and fiddle blankets for the elderly.
Maleny LAC was one of the early groups to launch its U4K partnership.
Ken said Maleny’s partnership began last year after he passed a U4K stand at an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family day on the Sunshine Coast.
“I saw it as an opportunity for our LAC to partner with a worthy group like U4K to distribute clothes made from our uniforms to disadvantaged families who otherwise wouldn’t have access to good quality clothes,” Ken said
.“Maleny has seven LAC members, and we are always looking for ways to attract more members and engage more with our local communities. It’s likely we’ll need to expand our Palmwoods sewing group soon,” he said
.“Some of the additional ideas which have also been fed into the sewing group’s work, like fiddle blankets for people with dementia or autism are fantastic and can also be used in our vehicles to assist our paramedics with their patient care.
“We’re here to support our ambulance stations and act as a bridge between QAS and our communities, so being able to play a direct role in reducing the impact of QAS uniforms going to landfill, contributing to QAS’s sustainability, and supporting our most vulnerable community members at the same time increases our volunteers’ sense of value and purpose.”
If people are interested in becoming a member of the Maleny Local Ambulance Committee they can contact Ken via kennipperess01@gmail.com.
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