The Tenison Woods College, Mount Gambier, immersion visit to Timor in July included calling in to Klibur Domin (KD) to learn more about some of the significant health challenges faced by Timorese residents. KD thanked the Tenison Woods College community for their generous cash donation to assist the KD health programs. The visiting group also […]
Ryder-Cheshire
Raphael Happenings
Our regular activities continue on campus. A total of 55 assessments and 43 admissions have been done in the past six months. There are 108 students in the residential centres and another 44 attend the school every day. The Early Intervention and School Readiness Centre is bustling with an average of 50 children in the […]
Chance Comment Leads to Support for Klibur Domin
At a morning tea after our village weekly Mass, I mentioned to Fr. Phuong, the Assistant Priest at St Francis Xavier Parish, Box Hill, that Helen and I had recently returned from Timor-Leste. Fr Phuong pricked up his ears and wanted to know more about the reasons for our visit. I told him about the […]
Uma Garton and Ballarat Grammar Junior School
The Ballarat Grammar School Project at Garton Cottage (Uma Garton) was recently completed at Klibur Domin. It is thanks to the school’s generous donation that the facilities have been greatly improved. This project was to add an annexe at the back of Uma Garton, a water tank for drinking water and a fence around the […]
Remembering Dr Don Sinclair at the Ryder-Cheshire Homes in Ivanhoe
In October we had the opportunity to invite members of the Sinclair family to join us for an afternoon function to remember the late Dr Don Sinclair, and to officially name our building at 10 Donaldson Street as Don Sinclair House. At the Homes in Ivanhoe, we have 43 apartments spread across three buildings, which […]
Ryder-Cheshire Sponsorship Drive 2023 to 2025
At the Ryder-Cheshire Australia Biennial Conference on 6 May in Ballarat, the RCA Sponsorship Drive was launched by RCA President Rory McEwen. He was assisted by three Ballarat Schools. Two young students from Ballarat Clarendon College used giant golden scissors to cut the ribbon held ably by students from Ballarat Grammar School and the Principal […]
From the President
With the very successful AGM and Biennial Conference behind us it is time to stiffen our resolve and focus firmly on the task of raising funds to support our two overseas homes. Sponsorships have for many years been the mainstay of our fundraising and the launch of a new RCA Sponsorship Drive, with the enthusiastic […]
Sue Ryder
1967 Sue Ryder Foundation magazine extract from The Times Newspaper There are two ways of getting to the village of Cavendish in Suffolk. You may journey there across a landscape that still retains the dream-like quality of eighteenth-century painting of the English School; where every bend of the road reveals a Constable in situ, and […]
Don Sinclair House
Don Sinclair House Ryder-Cheshire Victorian Homes Foundation Inc in Ivanhoe first opened its doors forty years ago in 1981. Over the years the Victorian Homes have been the “Home away from Home” for hundreds of residents and their carers providing comfortable short-term accommodation while they attend hospitals in Melbourne for medical treatment. Dr Donald Sinclair’s long association with […]
CONGRATULATIONS Neville
CONGRATULATIONS Neville In the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June this year Neville Gilbertson was awarded an OAM. He was awarded for his community service in Mount Gambier particularly for his work in Ryder-Cheshire and Rotary. Neville, ably assisted by his wife, Kaye, has been actively involved with the Mount Gambier Ryder-Cheshire Homes since their beginnings. He was […]