Staff Matters 73

Staff Matters

September 23, 2016- Issue 73 Week 13

In this Issue

Afford’s Expo Extravaganza

Page 1 • Afford’s Expo Extravaganza

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Orange Blossom festival.

NFD end of season presentation.

Nepean Disability Expo.

Afford would like to take this opportunity to formally thank the following staff that assisted during our three day expo/event extravaganza including: Nepean Disability Expo – Fri 16th & Sat 17th September Bidwill Festival – Sat 17th September Orange Blossom Festival – Sat 17th & Sun 18th September Nepean Football Dragons end of season presentation (Afford sponsored) – Sat 17th September As you know these events are extremely important for Afford & local communities and without your continued support, passion & dedication we would not achieve the positive outcomes required to be the provider of choice.

• Staff Profile • Campbelltown Mini Golf Masters • Canley Vale Granted Shelter

Page 3 • Lurnea Clients Experience Success

Page 4 • Cooking With Supermum, Tahira Khalid • Afford Selfies • Have A Laugh

Thank You to: Caroline Krix Lyn Wallace Nancy Elnajar Karen Parker Fatima Fernandes Fred Etuk Laura Peterson Kiralee Jackson

Allan Sio Karla Waters Shannon Renshall Michelle Flynn (last minute stand in) Luke Jenner (photography – NDE official opening) Anjuli Rangar Paul Thomas

Once again ‘many thanks’, it is truly an honour to work with such dedicated and caring staff, we look forward to working on our next event together..

T 02 8805 3700 E info@afford.com.au 12 Marieanne Place, Minchinbury 2770 afford.com.au

Reminder Don’t forget to send your/clients achievements and good news stories & photo’s to CELEBRATE@afford.com.au

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Staff Profile

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Lifestyle Assistant Penrith Lifestyle Centre Favourite Song: Anything by Chris Brown.

Favourite Movie: Why did I get married ?

Favourite Hobbies: Dancing.

Campbelltown Mini Golf Masters

Every week clients from our Campbelltown Lifestyle Centre attend Mega Mini golf at Penrith.

Our clients look forward to navigate the tricky courses and enjoy social time with Mega Mini Golf staff whom they have developed a fantastic relationship with over the weeks.

After their mini golf adventure the clients attend various parks for lunch and stay active by going on a big walk to explore the local community.

Canley Vale Granted Shelter

Favourite Foods: Thai or anything spicy.

If you could be an animal what would you be: A Lion.

What is your dream holiday destination: Anywhere sounds good to me.

If you had the power what would you change about the world: No more poverty.

What is the nicest thing someone has ever done for you: Karen my team leader giving me the opportunity to work at Afford.

If you had to teach something what would you teach: Educate people on disabilities.

Something no one knows about me: I make wigs in my spare time.

Our Canley Vale Lifestyle Centre were lucky enough to receive a generous $34, 058 grant from Community Building Partnerships to build an apex shelter and bbq.

The new area means our families and many visitors can make use of the new shaded area to have lunch, hold a bbq and enjoy the outdoors just in time for summer.

A big thankyou to Community Building Partnerships for the generous donation, allowing us to provide an even better service for our clients at Canley Vale.

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Lurnea Clients Experience Success

Every Thursday Lurnea Lifestyle Centre clients, Rosanna and Eric participate in their work experience program at our Preston’s ADE, to better understand the workforce.

Rosanna loves packaging the boxes and having time to socailise with other supported employees, staff who attend the site said “it was so great seeing her so happy that she could do a really good job, everyone needs to feel that they can achieve, I bet she will be very excited to go next week”.

Eric from Lurnea Lifestyle Centre’s weekly visit to work experience gives him a chance to shine. This week was no different as Eric like every week was very motivated and very capable spending many hours assembling boxes which leaves him feeling so good about himself and his achievement. Staff at the site exclaimed “Eric is one of Lurnea’s most dedicated and best work experience clients. He is such a nice young man that is always polite and is a pleasure to work with”.

Keep up the great work guys and we look forward to hearing more wonderful stories in the future!

Afford Join The Circus At Mater Dei Fundraiser Afford staff recently got all dressed up to enjoy a night out at the circus themed Mater Dei School Foundation Dinner at The Cube, Campbelltown Catholic Club.

Afford were sponsors at the event which was attended by over 900 people. Apart from the stunning circus theme, the night featured a wide range of great entertainment including a silent and public auction and a number of extremely talented school performers.

A big thank you to all the staff who attended to support Afford on the night.

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Cooking With Supermum, Tahira Khalid Recently at our Mt Druitt Lifestyle Centre, one of our staff Ursula Todd was able to initiate a wonderful experience for our cooking Program.

Tahira Khalid is the Mother of one of our amazing clients, Fahad. Tahira volunteered her time to support our cooking program participants to prepare an Indian dish called Chicken Biryani.

Tahira purchased the ingredients and then involved the clients in preparing and cooking the dish.

Tahira enjoyed the experience so much, that Tahira is excited by the idea of potentially attending other Lifestyle Centres to demonstrate how authentic Indian food is prepared.

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In this Selfie Above: TTW trainees after packing 1000 bags for the Nepean Disability Expo.

Please send in your selfies

Have a laugh