The ladies of Central Taranaki Provincial Rural Women are issuing a challenge to other groups and organisations.
"We want to see other charitable groups come on board and get fundraising too," says Margaret Vickers, who adds she and her fellow rural women were delighted to give Michael Joyce, chairman of the Taranaki Health Foundation (THF) a sizeable donation towards the purchase of a new angiography machine for the Base Hospital.
Michael says the THF is "blown away" by the generosity of the group, and he encourages other groups to consider helping raise some of the $1.2 million the THF need to raise to purchase the new machine.
The machine itself will cost $3.6 million, with the Taranaki District Health Board (TDHB) having prioritised $1.2 million from its operating capital and the Taranaki Electricity Trust (TET) pledging $1.2 million towards the machine as well.
Helen Jones, of the Central Taranaki Provincial Rural Women, says the choice to fundraise for the machine "was an obvious one really, it is something that will benefit so many people, so we were happy to get involved".