Many children require emergency care from hospitals that need our help to buy essential equipment to help save lives. It is important that we recognise the fact that before Sophie’s tragic accident people with such horrific burns would most often not survive. We must also acknowledge that the machines and medical know-how that helped to save Sophie’s life were available to her because of the generosity of others.
The Day of Difference foundation distributes funds raised to the Children's Hospitals and to the Concord skin laboratory.
Unfortunately many children are tragically
injured or stricken ill each
year and unless we keep doing something to help there will be little
advancement of research and available technology.
So I urge anyone who can help in any way to please support this annual event and the Day of Difference Foundation so that they can continue their vital work.
Regards
Carl Glover
For those of you who are not aware of the
circumstances that started this event.
The date was December 15, 2003, and in the Sydney suburb of Fairlight surrounded
by her classmates two year old Sophie Delezio was having an afternoon nap at the
Roundhouse Childcare Centre. Santa was due to visit them that afternoon, but,
instead of waking to a sleigh being drawn by reindeer they were roused by a car
crashing into their room, headlights on and with its wheels still spinning it
landed in the middle of the sleeping children and burst into flames. One can
only imagine what it was like in that room filled with fire and smoke as the
children were being rescued, that is, all of them except Sophie. Eventually
found by Manly Fire-fighter Wade Laverack, who said of Sophie’s discovery, "Upon
lying down beside the vehicle I could see the feet of a child, all I could see
was a very charred body and I thought she was deceased. The civilians lifted the
car; I got underneath, grabbed Sophie's leg and pulled her out." When she began
screaming, Laverack said he thought: "Well, she might get out of this”
Prompted by the care that Sophie received from the various Children’s Hospitals
her parents Ron and Caroline started the Day of Difference Foundation.
Sophie Delezio and Molly Wood suffered massive burns when they were trapped under the car. Molly Wood was released from hospital in March after enduring 18 rounds of surgery for burns to about 40 per cent of her body and nearly two months in intensive care. Sophie lost both feet, some fingers and suffered third-degree burns to 85 per cent of her body.
Tragically and unbelievably Sophie was involved in a second accident May 5th 2006
Sophie was run down by the car while being pushed in a
stroller across French's Forest Road at Seaforth..
She suffered multiple fractures and a tear in one lung.
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