Christine Friday & Kathleen Pooley Sub Fund

Women’s Wheeling and Healing Program by Outback Academy is funded by the Christine Friday & Kathleen Pooley Sub Fund, as part of the Victorian Women’s Benevolent Trust.

Established in 2016, the foundation of this Sub Fund is thanks to the vision and generosity of Chris Friday who saw it as a way of honouring and acknowledging her late biological mother Kathleen Pooley (1906 – 1957).

Chris is a woman committed to supporting her community through her volunteering efforts and philanthropy.

The Sub-Fund seeks applications from:

• Aboriginal community organisations for projects addressing the education, health needs and housing of Aboriginal women and girls in Victoria.

 

 

Project: Women’s Wheeling and Healing Program

Organisation: Outback Academy
Grant Type: Sub Fund
Amount: $3,500
Year: 2019-20
Website: outbackacademy.org.au/red-dust-heelers

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Outback Academy will bring representatives from the Red Dust Heelers Women’s team to Shepparton to deliver their Wheeling and Healing program with twenty Aboriginal women with and without disabilities. Young women with disabilities who experience the Wheeling and Healing program will combine wheelchair basketball with a session sharing the Heelers’ own stories and approaches to keeping active, and physically, mentally and spiritually strong.