2007 sspa mchugh-henderson award

2007 sspa mchugh-henderson award
- hayley galbraith

                                                                                        Rosemary Hobbs presents the 2007 McHugh-Henderson Award
                                                                                        to Hayley Galbraith at the 40th Convention Dinner Dance.

Leisa Whitaker, Cathy Hobbs and Carly Myers would like to nominate Hayley Galbraith for the McHugh/Henderson Memorial Award for her commitment to improving the environment and helping her local community.

Hayley’s passion for Australian native flora and fauna, and her commitment to taking on and tackling environmental issues in her local area is incredibly inspiring, as is her willingness to help out others in her local community.

Hayley has been a member of the Friends of the Wildlife Reserve, Bundoora since 2002, her involvement in this volunteer group has included:

Attending every “National Clean Up Australia Day” since 2003, volunteering 4 hours at a time.
Attending 8 Planting Day’s in the Creswell Forest, volunteering 4 hours at a time.
Cleaning up areas in the Creswell Forest to accommodate new growth – she has helped out 5 times doing this.
Attending 6 spot light evenings & education days with the Ranger in conjunction with La Trobe University, Bundoora.

In addition to the above, Hayley has also given her time to:

Attending numerous Wildlife rescues and lending her support to the full time Wildlife Carer’s for the past three years.
Independently cared for many injured birds and possums.
Volunteering at the Bundoora Animal Farm for three years, and is still connected to the farm, assisting them with common injury’s to guinea pigs, ducks etc.
Currently studying fauna & flora at school at year 9 level.
Hayley is very well known in her community for her natural ability to help with injured wildlife.
In 2005, Hayley was recommended by someone in the community to a family from McLeod to take care of their pet rabbit while they were travelling overseas. Hayley was in the local paper for her efforts for doing such a great job with Wellington for the 1 year she had him. This rabbit came to her on a diet of Nutri Grain, sweet biscuits - all the wrong foods, Hayley changed his diet and he became a healthy rabbit. When the family returned, Hayley wrote down what she had been feeding him and passed it on to the family, who were so grateful because Wellington stopped having the runs.
Volunteer work for the Greensborough Aquarium taking care of reptiles and fish. The lady who runs the Greensborough Aquarium has commented that Hayley is amazing at her ability to care for animals
Picking up of rubbish in her area or even area’s we have visited.
Volunteering to walk a gentleman’s dog, who suffered a stroke and was unable to move his left side. John heard about Hayley and her passion for animals and came looking for her in his chair to ask if she could walk his dog for him. John and Hayley have developed a wonderful friendship.
The Galbraith’s family vet is amazed with her knowledge of diagnosing her animals before he see them.
Much to the amusement of Hayley’s family, Hayley has 18 animals that she cares for each day, which include several breeds of birds, shingle back lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs, frogs, cat, dogs, ducks and Mexican walking fish.

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