The Medibank Bendigo store has become the first trial store to support local kids to become health ‘Superstars’.
Medibank is supporting local families by helping them to have health conversations with their children in a fun and interactive way.
Medibank customers with children between the ages of 3-8 years old are given a sticker chart that helps them track health activities like brushing their teeth, eating vegetables or getting them away from the television and out playing.
Medibank’s Bendigo Store Manager Carmen Bannan said when local families complete the challenge they can pick up a teddy made by old Medibank retail uniforms from our local store.
“It’s been fantastic to have conversations with local families and their kids about forming healthy habits whether that’s eating healthy with a wide variety of nutritious foods, making physical activity fun or simply helping them to learn to look after their teeth,” said Ms Bannan.
“We’ve included reusable stickers, so parents can use the chart weekly until healthy habits are formed.
“The sticker chart helps parents to tailor the experience to each child and to encourage them to form positive lifelong healthy habits,” said Ms Bannan.
Medibank partnered with LOOP Upcycling to create the teddy bears from 880 kilograms of old Medibank retail uniforms.
Ms Bannan also said we wanted our old uniforms to have a second life and not end up in landfill – it allows us to help support jobs for some of the most disadvantaged members of the Australian community as well as giving our health ‘Superstars’ a reward for their hard work.”
LOOP upcycles used uniforms and works to create bears that are available in a wide range of colours.
Westcare provides Australians with a disability quality employment and they helped to make more than 140 unique Medibank teddy bears.
Medibank employees from the Customer Connect team also volunteered to unstitch the Medibank labels from 45 large bags of clothes to be donated to the Red Cross
