In wonderful news for the Queensland Kendo Renmei and the Club, the grant application that was lodged with the Gambling Community Benefit Fund last year was successful, and the Club in now in receipt of two Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), one for Toowoomba and one for Gin Gin.
AEDs are an important but expensive component of a comprehensive first aid kit. In cases of a cardiac emergency, the availability and use of an AED doubles the chance that someone will survive. However, due to their cost, they are not often available when needed.
The successful grant will mean that if the worst was to occur, we would be able to give that person the best chance possible, whether it happened to be a Club member, or a member of the general public.
Many thanks to Tom Johnson sensei, President of the QKR, for putting in the many hours of work to put together the grant application and seeing this process through to the distribution of AED units to the various QKR Clubs that have participate in this scheme.