Disabled:

1. Technical Aid to the Disabled (ACT)

Despite having an intellectual disability, a 33 year old Canberra woman has been delivering newspapers and real estate advertisements for the past 10 years. This young women delivers approximately 3600 items a month within her local suburb. So she can continue to provide this service, the Sisters of Charity Foundation has funded the purchase of a new delivery trolley.

TADACT assists people of any age with any type of disability by designing and making innovative equipment which is otherwise unavailable. Without the trolley she would lose the contact she has with others in her local community, miss the exercise and most importantly lose her sense of independence.

2. L’Arche

Providing support to people living with disability is a priority of the Sisters of Charity Foundation. Easing the workload of domestic chores for residents and their carers is vital to a decent quality of life. Thats why we provided the funding to buy 2 new energy efficient clothes dryers and a lawnmower for group homes in Merrylands and Campsie run by L’Arche Sydney.

The new clothes dryers are helpful on rainy days and to better deal with continual changes of bed linen in both homes where there are 7 residents living with disability, their live in assistants and part-time carers.

The lawn mower has been a great success at the Merrylands house and means the yards are now suitable for entertaining and BBQs expanding the range of outdoor activities and enriching the social lives of residents and their visitors.