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Helping Financially Disadvantaged Kids
Nearly one in every five children has some sort of learning difficulty, the result of a
disability, serious illness or trauma, emotional difficulties, and/or environmental or educational experiences. This means that in every classroom at school, five children will struggle to learn.
Often there are no physical signs of a problem and a child who finds it difficult to read and write may be disruptive or lack concentration simply because they are struggling to do something that seems easy for their friends.
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Many of these children feel distressed and worthless and without help will lack the skills for employment and social interaction as they approach adulthood. Research points to possible future drug and alcohol abuse, unemployment, homelessness and very sadly suicide.
Children from financially disadvantaged families who also have a learning difficulty are doubly disadvantaged.
Without help, these children can't access the education and therapy support they need to help them speak, read, and understand as well as others the same age and achieve functional literacy. Their chance of securing employment when they leave school is limited, continuing their family's financial difficulties into the next generation.
Helping Kids Learn removes one of the major barriers to services for these families - fees. The project helps children with learning difficulties and disabilities from financially disadvantaged families gain access to the specialist services that help to alleviate their child's distress and give them hope for the future.
Helping Kids Learn is an initiative of children's learning specialists Learning Links, a registered Australian charity assisting children who have difficulty learning. Learning Links helps children and families who are disadvantaged and suffer distress and misfortune by providing specialist education, therapy and counselling regardless of economic status, nationality or religious background.
Learning Links receives no recurrent Government assistance for its School Age Services and has to charge fees to cover the specialist help it gives children and their families. The charity must raise funds each year to continue their current level of services.
$36 will cover the fee of one specialist literacy and numeracy session for one school age child for one hour. $360 will cover the fee of weekly specialist education sessions for one child for one term (10 weeks). $1,440 will provide a year's specialist education session for an hour a week for one child or one term's specialist education session help for four children.
$55 will cover the fee of one private therapy session for one school age child for 30 minutes. $550 will cover the fee of weekly private therapy sessions for one child for one term (10 weeks). $2,200 will provide a year's therapy session for a 30 minutes a week for one child.
This year Learning Links needs to raise $178,000 to help subsidise fees for children and families. Every dollar will go to a child in need.
Donations to Learning Links are tax deductible and receipted. You can give directly to this project.
How do I give?
Please send a cheque or your credit card details to:
Learning Links
10 Railway Pde
Penshurst NSW 2222
(specifying that your donation is for "Helping Financially Disadvantaged Kids")
Or simply fill out the online donations form.
Is there an allowance for administrative fees? No, all money goes directly to fund children's tuition and therapy.
Contact details for further information:
Robyn Collins, General Manager Business Services, Learning Links
Telephone: (02) 8568 8249
Fax: (02) 9580 4788
Email:
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