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Connecting creativity, human dignity, leadership
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SWARA Connecting.... Sunshine Welfare & Remedial Association
101 Park Road Woolloongabba QLD 4102
Website: www.swara.com.au Email: [email protected]
Phone: 07 3391 4119 Fax:3391 0922
Our Values: Love, Truth, Right Action, Peace, Non-violence
May 2015
FROM OUR FOUNDER MOYIA O’BRIEN
We welcome you all to join us for our celebrations of the 40th year of SWARA in
Brisbane serving our local community. We have loved everyone involved over all
of those years and look forward to welcoming you all back again at SWARA
during our Open Week November 23-27.
Our famous SWARA plays, our SWARA Songbirds Choir, our poets, musicians
and artists will warm your heart, inspire you to make an impact on the world
and to make a difference, the way all of our clients do.
I invite you to join me at SWARA and to bring along all past clients, volunteers
and staff that you are able to contact. We will share wonderful stories, memories and lots of love together.
With love always, Moyia
SWARA 40TH CELEBRATIONS LAUNCHED
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SWARA 40TH YEAR CELEBRATIONS launched with
a brainstorming of ideas about what and how we
will celebrate. Surrounded by lots of love our
current Pink Twins Moyia O’Brien and Councillor
Helen Abrahams shared some great ideas to put
SWARA on the map and connect with our
amazing community particularly in the
Woolloongabba area. It looks like the walking
groups is about to stride around our local streets
seeing where we can contribute and thank our
local community for the support we always have
received in beautiful Brisbane.
Since we have moved from College St, we have
been busy preparing to reconnect with our
community and our staff are keen to provide far
more community access.
SWARA PROGRAMS
HEALTHY DOMESTIC LIFE SKILLS
Sunshine Café produces sumptuous, healthy
feasts, like this one to farewell staff member
Adam Brooks who is now working on some new
decade goals.
LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE SKILLS
Congratulations Joshua Nash who was awarded a
Reading Skills commitment award for his
commitment to his own learning with the best
attendance at lessons. Well done our magnificent
Volunteers who run Reading Skills daily from
9.30-12.30.
Basketball keeps us fit and warm on these
beautiful May June mornings and skills are
developing well!
HORTICULTURE
Daily watering, pruning, refreshing the gardens
keeps us all active and aware of Nature our best
teacher.
CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS
Thank you Ted Lucas as you spend your last week
with us until you return from the USA. You have
inspired our artists to bring out their magical
internal visual skills and inspired us to keep the
SWARA story alive on our walls in preparation for
our November celebrations. We welcome Jenny
Ip who will guide the Art project through its next
phase.
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Well done clients, the love in your brushwork
lingers on our driveway walls and your inspiration
becomes indelible for our memories.
Jeff Blunt is creating a dove sculpture for the
Peace Garden each Friday. It will adorn our walls
and raise our spirits too.
BAKERY SKILLS
BAKERY CLUB goes on outing to see Moyia
O’Brien:
We all went onto the lovely new home where
Moyia now lives. Anne, Lisa, Ruth, Sally, David
and Tim all signing in as visitors in a place
called Arcare at Eight mile Plains.
It was a great day for everyone in the Bakery
Club to have some one-on-one time with
Moyia even though we were running a little bit
behind schedule and we hope to go and visit
Moyia again soon. Written by Seb Thomson.
RECYCLING
Our clients are ready once again with full
containers for the United Metals truck to be
picked up. Great work everyone, our outcome
this month is to buy new tools and safety
equipment to gain full potential through the
many stages of the recycling process. Let’s break
our record!
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SWARA PROGRAM AND MEAL TIMES 2015
8:00 - 9:00 Horticulture Garden Club
9:00 - 9:15 Communication welcome -all to attend promptly
9:15 - 10:30 Session 1
10:30 - 11:00 Morning tea and clean-up
11:00 - 12.30 Session 2
12:30 – 1:15 Lunch and clean-up
1:15 – 2:30 Session 3
2:30 Sign off/ home time
MAY BIRTHDAYS
1st Michael Harman
3rd Barry Davey
10th Clare Curry
13th Glen Lucas & Wendy Robb
16th Boll Henderson
17th Stephen Doig
20th Medina Milecevic
22nd John Gwizdalla
29th Michelle Giufridda
UPCOMING EVENTS
Save these dates:
25th June – SWARA invites all family, careers,
advocates and volunteers to assist clients in
‘Understanding client plans for our NDIS
interviews’. Lunch will be provided. Could all
reading and other volunteers help us on this day
please? You will help individual Needs Surveys
and plans to be written.
17th September – National Disability Week
conversation with an NDIA speaker helping us to
know how to write your plans to realise your full
potential and to get maximum individual funding
in 2016.
29th October – NDIA clients plans presentation
and NDIA review of plans
Kind regards,
SWARA Board and Staff
Ranji Goundar (Chair), Susan Carlton (Secretary),
Kiel Harvey (Treasurer), Andrew Karydas, Faye
Carver, Sonu Kumar Board members.
Bronwyn Gowing (exec manager), Deb Kilvington
(senior support worker, Baz Glasson, Lois Vider,
Richard Manning, Buddhi Kudaligama, Sarah
Aitken
Our Management Board are meeting weekly
currently to ensure that they guide SWARA
through the important changes needed to guide
you, our clients, families, carers and friends
through the changes brought about by the NDIS
Act.
Your client funding from government is important
as are your own goals and pathways to achieve
those goals.
With your plan that staff are assisting clients to
put together by December 2015, the NDIA will
fund your needs that are ‘necessary and
reasonable’.