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WHITY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9,1989, PAGE 17 ~Lis a& Imagine is a national dampaign of The Canaclian Centre for Philanthropy to increase Canadians' awareness and contribution to ail charitable and volunteer organizations. We support their, goals and are contributing'space for the Imagine ads on this and other pages. To bring the campaign dloser to home, the Whitby Free Press is running a seriesof profiles of the needs and activities of local organizations. Cail us if your organization could'use a boost. Training orin*&ý.ary People to s.ave lives By Trudie Zavadovie With as littie as four hours training you could save the life of a loved -one who is suffering a heatrt attack. Without skilled assistance within four to six minutes of a heart attack, the victim's chiances of a full recovery dimin- isbi substantially. ,Durham Save.-a-eart-fcuses-, on public awareness ,regarding heart disease, healtl»r heart liv- ing, and training the ' publfc in. the lifé-saving skill of cardiopul- mionary resuscitation (CPR). -The establishment of Durham, S ave-a-Hleart in 1983 was one of the 15 requirements p ut forth by the Ministry of Health in order for Durham ambulance atten- dants tQ be trained,,to aparame- dic level. "Our main focus was to pro- mote and provide CPR training," says Bàrbara Hiemstra, execu- tive director. "Now we don'Pt just teach people topump and blow, We teach- heauthy heart-living anhd how to avoid eart disease. "CPR is- incréa-sîng in -demand à a job requirement,"- says Hiemstra. «We teach accordingte, the standards of the Heart and Stroke Foundation and use their materials. We are in no other The 'most recent statistics show that heart attacks, strokes and related conditions are res- ponsible for. about, 36 per cent of MIl deaths in Ontario. They also slte heart disease as Canada's Durhàm Sav-a-Heart Purp4ise: To promote and provide CPR training and public educ-ation ontheàlthy heart living. Membership: Board of directors - 14 regional representatives; advisory board:'- nine; instructors - 36; staff -three. Fundraising.- Primarily approach service clubs for specific equipment needs; 1989 fundraising budget - $4,884. A United Way agency. Contact: Barbara Hi-emstra, executive director, 292 Kfing St. W., Oshawa, L1J 2J9 571-1152 leading cause of death. Over the past 25 years the heart-related death rate has declined by 34 per cent for people under 65 yèars. (Heart Sznart 89 conference' statistics quoted by Minister 'of HSealth Elinor 'Our ob5eéctivie is to train 20 per cent of the population so that at- any griven time, there can be somebody there to help,, s.ays Hiemstra. *Durham Save-a-Heart is teach- ,ing.CPR to secondary school stu- enson a elective basis in many p ftsofDurhýamiRegion.. The organization looks forward, to servicing schools in the Whitby, area as the opportunity presents itself. ' We very muîch appreciate the * cooperation and support of tea- *chers in the health sciences anid physical education areas who reconie. theý importance of CPR," saLys Hiemstra. "We don't use many volun- teers. We are, governed by a volunteer board of directors miade Up of 14 'People with reioa representâtion, have a vouter advisory committee of nine people, a staff of three (two fuil-time, one part-time) and 36 instructors." Instructors are paid 76n a !feé-foi-serVice bss "The United Way- provides funding for much of our operat- ing costs. Our course fees pay the rest. The only fundraising we do is for equipmerit. "We usÜ~aIly go to the service clubs and te are very. helpful. The Oshaýwa Rotary Club'~o vided $16,00orou an u i February '89,the Whitby .Rotai.y', Club lfunded us for- our ,Sunri'se' monitor viewerf-or videos.(.acom- bination portable VCRe-and- tele- vision). "Our fundraising budget for '89 was $4,8842'" Durham > Save-a-Heart holds several CPR classes. They are now training ,300 students at Durham College. Most classes are small and have a maximum student-tea- cher- ratio of one to eight. Prices range from $21 to, $42 (including manuals),, depending on the course. Instructors, certified bý the Heart and Stroke Founci tien, travel throughout Durhami Region. Arrangements can be made with groups having six or more trainees. Each trainee is aIse gqiven his/ her own individual mask to work on, and health standards are met. DURHAM Save-A-Heart coordinator, 26. information and pamphlets. were Sharon Noble (left) explains, display to given- about healthy heart living and shopper at-the Oshawa Centre on.Julýy risk factors of heart disease.. ïý -Press photo Focusing on skais, not handi caps When Allan Harris of Toronto thinks about what he would do if he won a lottery, thoughts o! travelling immediately come te niind. However, he does net dream of the exotic lands of Thailand or the Far East, or the rugged outback of Australia or nights in Paris, but rather the United States of Arnerica. Why? Because Allan feels that North Axnerica is the moet accessible country in the world and- for Harris, who uses a wheelchair, these are tbings you must keep in niind even when you're day dreaniing. He broke bis back in adriving accident at the age of 19, now Cauls binself a C-6-7 quadrapeligic wbich means he broke bis back between the sixth and seventh vertebrae, one vertebra. away froni having ful use of bis bands. However,' it is bis bands and bis sharpthining wbich will get bim ~kinte the work force. He is 27 years old and bas been in the Ontario March of Dmes Diskovery Computer Training Program for the last year and a haîf. Now in the second month of phase three of the two-year programn, Harris spent six months previous te this, in phase two, workcing with CIBO as a data entry operater in the systenis division of the financial management department. He says that he learned a lot during bis work terni, and feels confident enough to pursue a job as a data base programmer, which is bis goa a.er .rdutng fomte iskovery Progam next year. Like moet aduts wth physical disabilitieà, ho feels that one of the meet difficult things te overcome are the attitudes - most people, tend.,te focus on. the ýwheelchair rather than the person iluit. However, one of the places wherje this focus cioes net occur is at the Miarch of Dmes where Services. such as the- Diskovery prcigram are developed te give adults with Physlcal disabilities a competitive edge in the work. force. Employment training is juat on. Of three services on which the March of Dumes spends 90 per cent of its funds. The otheix two areas include independent living assstance and mobility aids. Remaining funds are spent on the services ranging froni a camping and recreatien program te a poet-polio network. Feunded in 1951, the March oft Dumes initially foght thepoi epidemnic ofte '50s. With the djscovery of the vaccine, and polio no longer a tbreat, the' organization's mandate bas changed te ensure that aIl adulte with physical disabilities ir. Ontario are giý,ven every op portunit te ea independent and meaningful lives. 'We don't need that wheelchair bit,, pays Allan Harris, a man et many talents that don't need the word wheelchair in front ofthern. 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