2. Get Organised
Depending on your activity, there will be a few more steps to go through to get yourself organised. This means it’s time to think about the scale of your activity, who needs to know what you’re doing and whether or not you need to organise permits or insurance.
Our top tip is to make yourself a checklist and write down everything you will need to do. This will help to keep you on track throughout the entire process. By creating a word document, you can share the checklist with others who might be helping you along the way.
3. Get Registered
Once you know what you want to do and with whom, the next step is to get in touch with the Fundraising Team to fill them in on your wonderful plans. Whether you’re supporting the Royal Flying Doctor Service or another worthwhile charity, it’s really important to let them know what you’re up to.
4. Get the Word Out
How are people meant to know about your amazing fundraising activity if no one tells them?
To help you get the word out that you are raising money for a cause, we’ve got a few little tips, with the RFDS as an example:
Use some of our FREE RFDS event posters
Ask the RFDS team to add the event to the online calendar
Add the event to your work/school newsletter
Create an open Facebook event so you can invite people and ask them to share the event with friends
Create an online fundraising page and share the link with your network of friends, family and colleagues
As a not-for-profit aeromedical organisation, the Royal Flying Doctor Service relies on your help and generosity to keep the Flying Doctor flying.
Although the cattle station that Josh lives on is fictional, most of the other locations used in this book are real places. This includes the town of Coober Pedy, situated along the Stuart Highway in South Australia, about 846 kilometres north of Adelaide. The name comes from the Aboriginal term kupa piti, which means ‘white man’s hole’.
The town was established in 1915 as the Stuart Range Opal Field, when opal was discovered in the area. It was renamed Coober Pedy in 1920. Today it has more than seventy opal fields, produces more opal than any other place and is known as the opal capital of the world.
The town is also famous for its underground dwellings, which are dug into the rose-coloured sandstone. As well as homes, there are underground shops, hotels, restaurants and churches.
Today, Coober Pedy relies on tourism as well as opal mining. It is a popular stopping point for people travelling along the Stuart Highway from Adelaide to Alice Springs.
The town has a most unusual golf course consisting of sand, gravel and oil slicks. Golf here is played at night with glowing balls, so as to avoid the high temperatures of the day.
Numerous films have shot scenes in and around Coober Pedy, including Opal Dream, Until the End of the World, The Fire in the Stone, Ground Zero, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Salute to the Jugger, Stark, Pitch Black, Red Planet and Kangaroo Jack.
There is a drive-in cinema in Coober Pedy, although it is not owned by Ratchet.
Pseudechis Australis, also known as the King Brown snake, Mulga snake or Pilbara Cobra, is one of the longest venomous snakes in the world. Although it is commonly known as the King Brown, it is actually part of the black snake family, and black snake antivenom is used to treat bites from this species.
King Brown snakes are found in all parts of Australia except for Victoria and Tasmania. Their colour differs depending on locality; in the desert they tend to be a light brown shade, and in the cooler regions of Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales, a brown–blackish colour. Usually each scale is lighter toned around the edge, giving the snake a reticulated appearance.
King Brown snakes can grow up to three metres long, although 1.5 m long is a more typical size for an adult. They have robust bodies, a wide head and smooth snout. Their prey consists of small mammals, birds, snakes, lizards and frogs.
Although highly venomous, these snakes generally only attack when disturbed or provoked.
During times of difficult communication the phonetic alphabet is of great use. ‘S’ and ‘F’ can sound the same, as can ‘D’ and ‘B’. Spelling of names is sometimes required. For example, ‘Smith’ is transmitted as Sierra Mike India Tango Hotel using the phonetic alphabet.
LETTER
PHONETIC
SPOKEN AS
A
ALPHA
AL FAH
B
BRAVO
BRAH VO
CHARLIE
CHAR LEE
D
DELTA
DELLTA
E
ECHO
ECK OH
F
FOXTROT
FOKS TROT
G
GOLF
GOLF
H
HOTEL
HOH TEL
I
INDIA
IN DEE AH
J
JULIET
JEW LEE ETT
K
KILO
KEY LOH
L
LIMA
LEE MAH
M
MIKE
MIKE
N
NOVEMBER
O
OSCAR
OSS CAH
P
PAPA
PAH PAH
Q
QUEBEC
KEH BECK
R
ROMEO
ROH ME OH
S
SIERRA
SEE AIR RAH
T
TANGO
TANG GO
U
UNIFORM
YOU NEE FORM
V
VICTOR
VICK TAH
W
WHISKEY
WISS KEY
X
X-RAY
ECKS RAY
Y
YANKEE
YANG KEY
Z
ZOO LOO
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Royal Flying Doctor Service: Medical Mission
9780857988812
Published by Random House Australia 2016
Copyright © Penguin Random House 2016
Illustration copyright © Maria Pena 2016
The moral right of the author and illustrator has been asserted.
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First published by Random House Australia in 2016
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Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry
Author: Ivanoff, George
Title: Medical Mission [electronic resource]
ISBN: 978 0 85798 881 2 (ebook)
Series: Royal Flying Doctor Service; 3
Target audience: For primary school age
Subjects: Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
Medical emergencies – Juvenile fiction
Airplane ambulances – Australia – Juvenile fiction
Dewey
Number: A823.3
Cover and internal illustrations by Maria Pena
Cover design by Christabella Designs