Appeals
Baptcare relies on the generosity of its donors.
Without your financial support, we are unable to extend our programs to new areas of need and to more clients seeking assistance. Your contribution is an investment into our community, which means we all benefit from it.
Families like Debbie’s desperately need your support
>> donate to our Learn, Play, Talk appeal
For parents, watching their children struggle with basic communication and retreat from a world they don’t understand is heartbreaking.
There are currently 400 children with autism, learning and/or developmental delays on a central Western metropolitan waiting list for an early childhood intervention service. Many of these families won’t receive any assistance at all - they are waiting up to 18 months for a service, and after a child turns six they are no longer eligible.
Families like Debbie’s experience many difficulties in managing their child’s disabilities including relationship breakdown, financial hardship, grief and loss, and an increase in mental health problems.
To fill the gap in services available to these families, Baptcare developed an early childhood intervention program called ‘Learn, Play, Talk’ specifically for children aged zero to five who are on the waiting list.
Sanctuary gives hope to male asylum seekers
>> donate to our Sanctuary appeal
Can you imagine what it feels like to be alone, desperate, traumatised and frightened, having lost all hope?
Today there are over 500 asylum seekers living lawfully in Melbourne with no right to earn an income, no right to Medicare, and no access to any government funded welfare agency. These people are completely reliant on charitable support for their food, housing and medical care.
Baptcare, together with Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Project and the Brunswick Baptist Church has set up a housing facility called ‘Sanctuary’ that will provide a home to 20 single male asylum seekers who have nowhere else to go.
Drought appeal: relief for drought-stricken Victorians
>> your donations will support drought-stricken farmers in Victoria
Drought-stricken communities will receive much needed relief with the launch of Baptcare’s second drought relief appeal in partnership with the Baptist Union of Victoria (BUV).
Thanks to the generous support of the community in early 2007, Baptcare and the BUV raised $216,280 to assist struggling farmers in rural Victoria. While these funds assisted over 400 families and individuals in Northern Victoria, further support is still needed.
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