Sunday 19 November 2017

Project Arthur

There’s a bear with a white head and a furry brown body. He wears a blue shirt with Kids Arthritis on it and black pants. He has two big blue eyes and one massive smile. This is the very special Arthur the Kids Arthritis Bear.

Most of us have a toy from our childhood, mine is Arthur. Arthur and his massive smile would join me for hospital appointments and operations for my Juvenile Arthritis. When I’d enter a ward after an operation the smile on Arthur’s face would make the other children and nurses smile as well. He also gives the biggest cuddles that makes all the pain disappear.

This is why when I founded Australia's First and Leading organisation solely dedicated to supporting the 1 in 1000 children in Australia living with Juvenile Arthritis, Kids Arthritis. It was a no-brainer to make Arthur the cute, cuddly and official mascot of Kids Arthritis. Which is how he got his name: Arthur the Kids Arthritis Bear.



Arthur now brings smiles and offers hugs to children all over the world living with Juvenile Arthritis. So much so that now I’ve decided to turn Arthur into a heat pack and give every child in Australia living with Juvenile Arthritis their own Heat Pack Arthur by 2021. This will mean that now Arthur the Kids Arthritis Bear will be able give children living with Juvenile Arthritis a nice warm hug to relieve their pain.

There are no words to describe how incredible this feels that my favourite childhood bear is having the same impact it did on me, on other children living with Juvenile Arthritis. If you’d like to change a child’s life living with Juvenile Arthritis and give them a Heat Pack Arthur: www.kidsarthritis.org

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