Liz O’Toole has brought her passion for flowers to Ashburn House in Gladesville to bring colour to the lives of residents. “I can’t actually remember when I started volunteering at Ashburn House. As a mum of four young girls, I didn’t…
Liz O’Toole has brought her passion for flowers to Ashburn House in Gladesville to bring colour to the lives of residents. “I can’t actually remember when I started volunteering at Ashburn House. As a mum of four young girls, I didn’t…
An intergenerational reminiscence program at Courtlands Aged Care in North Parramatta is celebrating the lives of elderly residents and fostering relationships between young and old. The program involved students from Tara Anglican School for Girls, and linked a resident with…
After Suellen retired from nursing after 45 years she continued to enrich the lives of the elderly through pastoral care. The Pastoral Care Volunteer at Chamberlain Gardens is passionate about well-being and emotional care, and feels there is a need…
The English writer William Wordsworth (1770–1850), in his pastoral poem The Oak and The Broom, wrote the following lines: I know, and I have known it long; Frail is the bond by which we hold Our being, whether young or…
When World War II broke out a Scottish girl living in New Zealand immediately joined the Air Force, not knowing it was there she would meet her future husband. A tribute to May by her daughter, read out at her…