Community Contributions

NWDS has a foundation expectation that as a Charity and Public Benevolent Institution we are here to support the community in every way we can with a focus on our people with a disability.  This has then also been extended to our participants and staff who are encourage and supported to open their awareness to community needs and look at any avenues where our participants in the normal course of their day can offer something back to the community.  That opportunity can take the form of local events and supports where they might assist a person with their garden through (Community gardening) or cook up sweets for the local aged persons home or go to the home to entertain the residents. Often it can be more state wide where they may collect blankets for the homeless or have a bake sale and raise funds for a particular event. We also look at the community and sign  up on program to bring about change and provide the opportunity for our people with disabilities to understand and explore initiative to bring change to our society. Some wonderful examples are the

NWDS Shoebox Road Trip -where participants wrap boxes in Christmas wrap and then engaged with the community and our own families to make a gift donation for a particular disadvantaged  child at a country NSW school. Our Participants then pack them all up (often over 400) and head out for a 4 day road trip to personally deliver the gifts across Country NSW prior to Christmas.