Giving you the freedom to soar

Here at Afford, we get you. We want to offer you choice and deliver the highest quality supports that suit your needs. We’ve been trusted for over 60 years to help people with disability - because we make sure we focus on you.

The Australian Foundation for Disability (Afford) is a registered charity that provides disability services to over 2,000 people in Greater Western Sydney every day.

The organisation began in 1952 as the Poliomyelitis Society (NSW) and was established to provide services to people who had contracted polio in the 1950 Australian epidemic and to provide support for their families and carers.

Today, Afford is one of Australia’s leading disability service providers and is an active member of the leading industry body, National Disability Services.

Afford has chosen the origami crane symbol to express our spirit of guidance, support, hope, direction, flight, freedom and team work. WHAT THE CRANES REPRESENT

At Afford, we actively support your aspirations; creating freedom, choice and opportunity to fly high to achieve your goals.

Throughout history birds have been viewed as animals of special value and associated with honourable legends and stories, generations old. In Japanese, Chinese and Korean culture, the crane represents good fortune and longevity, being referred to as the ‘bird of happiness’. The origami crane is a symbol of hope and healing during challenging times, a reason we have chosen it for our logo. Today the practice of folding 1,000 cranes represents a form of healing and good luck.

We also take inspiration from the symbolic migrating pattern of birds. Birds use a V-formation to work and fly together as they migrate, with each bird flapping its wings to create an uplift for the bird following it.

Working together, we hope to lead the way so you can get to where you want to be quickly and easily; travelling on the thrust of our wings.