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Thanks to RITCHIES IGA, the simple act of putting food on your own table can help us put food on the table of families going through bone marrow transplants. Bone marrow transplants are grueling, and often require many months in…
Thank you to the Liverpool Catholic club! Here at Arrow, we look forward to the day when bone marrow transplants (BMT) are a thing of the past. Until then we will continue to fund promising medical research in BMT related…
Unless you’ve been through it, you probably don’t really understand the impact losing hair can have on a cancer patient. Losing your hair is a visible sign of illness and can trigger all sorts of unwanted responses from well- meaning…
Of all the hardships that cancer patients endure, losing their hair is often the thing that people tell us is one of the hardest to take. It’s such a visible manifestation of the treatment they’re going through, and it screams…
Thanks to the generosity of the Driscoll family, we have been able to support some incredibly dedicated nurses over the years. One such nurse, Caitlin Mulcahy, is continuing to grow in her cancer care skills years after she was awarded…
Lismore is doing it tough. First the COVID pandemic, and then the devastating floods just over a year ago now, the effects of which are continuing to be felt throughout the community. During these difficult times, people of Lismore and…
We have recently received an extremely generous donation from the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic (HCC) Association of $25,000 to help support our work here at Arrow. It is an especially generous donation this year because their event, the 111km overnight paddle…
Our attendance at the recent BLOOD Conference was a runaway success. How do we know? Because since then, we have built new relationships with many social workers across several new hospitals, and the number of families who have asked us…
High Achiever. That’s an apt description for Wennie van Lint. He has been an academic (Head of Department, no less), has had a football career including a couple of games with South Melbourne (now known as Sydney Swans) and is…
Arrow’s Board met for our Annual General Meeting last Friday evening. We took the opportunity to thank outgoing Chair Mark O’Hara for his many years of service to Arrow. Mark joined the Arrow Board in 2004 after losing his good…