The Australian woman's mirror

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NLq 059.4 AUS
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Sydney : The Bulletin Newspaper, 1924-
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Vol. 24 No.43 (15 September 1948)
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THE AUSTRALIAN  

WOMAN'S MIRROR  

“The Australian Woman’s Mirror,” Vol. 24—No. 43.  

Wednesday, September 15, 1948.  

 

New Deal for CRIPPLED CHILDREN  

Illustrated  

by  

WILL  

REECE.  

wjOW little one knows of what is happening behind  

t^le scenes one own city- have just uncovered  

WjrJa I■ great wonderful field of work—and talk about  

heartening discovery!  

fill Almost an accident, the fact of having to deliver  

—i-y message for someone else to the city office of this  

organisation gave me the chance of talk to one  

of the New Dealers,  

The office was heaped up with basketry and pottery, and  

Miss Handcrafts, as she shall be called, was one of those people  

who are bundle of energy and selfless enthusiasm. One had  

not been three minutes with  

her before it was realised that  

her chosen work really was' *>  

her life.  

This little fellow  

cannot play, but  

he can now be made  

to feel independent.  

The work? She was  

handcraft instructor  

attached* to this Society  

for Crippled Children, which had  

been in existence for twenty  

year f{ though had known nothing about it.  

Of course was full of questions. How many children was  

the society looking after? About two thousand, and the society  

ran three hospitals ior them, took them to holiday camps, and  

had organised number of social clubs as centres.  

Here such children, when able to go to them, couid meet each  

other, have entertainment, and be made to feel that they also  

have share of the normal life of the community. Special  

schools for such children are also run by the society, which  

aids and supervises them up to the age of twenty-one.  

“It must cost great deal,” commented.  

“Yes. Our expenses were almost four thousand pounds last  

year. The Government subsidises our hospitals to the extent of  

thirty per cent. Apart from that we get all sorts of donations  

froin fine people, many of whom want to be anonymous.  

“From five shillings up to thousand pounds we receive,  

and we have lots of auxiliaries always raising something. But  

we always need more than we get. We couldn’t manage if most  

of our helpers weren’t honorary. Only few, the actual staff,  

are paid.”  

She herself was “staff.”  

“I was originally typist and book-keeper. Then  

the war came and felt must do something to  

help. My pet hobby was handcrafts—l loved it—so  

became handcraft instructor at military hospitals,  

where that kind of therapy is so important.  

“After the war felt couldn’t go back to my  

orthodox job; there didn’t seem to be enough meaning  

in it. Through my hospital work had heard of this  

society and joined up.  

“There are wonderful salaries going now in my  

own line, but this work’s so wonderful. I’m up to  

my neck in my real hobby all the time, and it’s new  

life to such lot of splendid kiddies.”  

She indeed gave the impression of the right woman  

in the right niche, and was happy about it. Her  

cheery energy would mean much to handicapped  

child.  

“I’m on the go the whole time,” she went on.  

“I’m visiting homes from [she named far-flung  

seaside suburb] to [an inland one at the outer  

limit of the greater metropolitan area]. Sundays too.  

That’s the only way can get around regularly to all  

the children in my care.”  

asked how contacts were made.  

“In the first place we get to hear of them through  

the almoners of regular hospitals, or some neighbor may get in  

touch with us about ‘a kid in my street who’s crippled.’ Mothers  

themselves also come to us. We register them on our books  

right from infancy, you know; every kind of paralysis, spastic  

and otherwise, and crippling deformities of all sorts.  

“Many who’ve been trained in our schools can take such  

(Continued on page 6.)  

[Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, for transmission by post as newspaper.]  

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