The past 8 weeks have been very busy for not only myself but a small group of talented parents of premature babies who have given up their time and worked non stop towards these awards. We threw around idea’s and decided to create Australia’s first Local Premmie Hero Awards in January 2009 as you can read about below..

L’il Aussie Prems is proud to sponsor Australia’s first award to recognise and celebrate the dedication of individual volunteers within the local premature baby community. LAP is seeking nominations from around Australia of “local premmie heroes” – the ordinary yet extraordinary people who give up their time to support the families of premature babies both during their hospital stay and afterwards, doing everything from sewing tiny clothing for very low birth weight babies to setting up local playgroups for prematurely born children to organising fundraising for research into the causes of premature birth.

As a community of parents, we understand the premmie journey and how hard the road can be. We want to recognise and pay tribute to those people who go out of their way to make things easier for other families travelling that road.

Nominations of local premmie heroes can be made via the L’il Aussie Prems website at www.lilaussieprems.com.au/hero. Nominees do not need to have any premature children of their own.

Nominations open Friday 20th February 2009 and close on Thursday 30th April 2009. Details of the winners will be announced in May 2009