The Crows Foundation has been hard at work since the start of the year, donating a staggering $114,600 to seven different charities.
Established in May 2005, as the independent charity arm of the Adelaide Football Club with the charter to help South Australian children in need, the foundation has donated over $600,000 to more than 35 different charities in SA.
Below is a short summary on each of the recent donations made in 2012.
Cora Barclay Centre
$20,000
By purchasing state-of-the-art audiology equipment designed for diagnosing hearing loss in babies, toddlers and young children aged 2 weeks to 5 years old, the Foundation has helped to remove the current a 2-3 month wait on State Government diagnostic tests for babies identified as having potential hearing loss at birth.
HeartKids SA
$20,000
Through the club’s agreement with major sponsor Toyota, the Foundation was able to purchase a brand new Corolla. Currently SA does not provide paediatric heart surgery so families have to travel to Melbourne with their critically ill child for life-saving heart surgery. On average 2-3 families a week travel to Melbourne from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Flinders Hospital. This car will allow the families to travel to the hospital as quickly and easily as possible and eliminating the extra cost of car hire, taxi fares and public transport.
Foundation 21
$5,000
To fund ‘Camp Hi Lite’ for Down Syndrome children. The children involved in this camp will be high dependent cases of Down Syndrome and often miss out on experiences due to the high level of care required. But this camp is specifically designed for them and they will enjoy a weekend away full of fun activities. The most major one being hosted as our guests at the round 23 Crows match v Gold Coast Suns.
Little Heroes
$50,000
Launching a new in house nursing program for Butterfly Children, children living with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). EB is a genetic skin blistering disease which is caused be a defect in the structural proteins holding the skin layers together causing the skin to be extremely fragile and cause excessive blistering. The aim of this program is to improve patient support and family life by providing registered nurses to change dressings regularly and be a support service for the families. The outcome of this is to improve support for patients and families, better quality of life, greater balance of family life versus time spent caring for EB child.
The Smith Family
$10,000
Crows Foundation helped launched a program in 2009 called ‘Lets Read’ which is a program designed to build the confidence, skills and experience of parents in supporting the development of their young children for success at school, particularly in reading. A lot about educating parents to read to their children and help break the cycle of illiteracy in lower socio-economic demographics.
St Ann's Special School
$7,100
St Ann’s are moving into a new school (currently situated in Marion) and are developing a Sensory Garden. The CF has purchased an eight key marima which is wheel chair accessible so all students will be able to enjoy playing this instrument!
St Vincent de Pauls Society
$2,500
Through the CEO Sleepout, this donation was made towards families with children and youth in the effort for homelessness prevention.
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