Hi readers - finally - a reason in this election campaign to vote one way or the other!!!
Insight School for the Blind & Vision Impaired -
IMPORTANT election NEWS
As you may
have seen and heard in the media, these last few days have been busy and hectic
for us all.
The Federal Coalition has pledged $2.2 million, which will ensure the establishment and opening in January 2011 of the Insight Education Centre for the Blind and Vision Impaired in Glen Waverley. The Internet link to the Herald Sun article announcing the pledge is below, as well as a link to the ABC TV 7:30 report on Insight:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/08/04/2973707.htm
This is a huge
commitment, a huge achievement. We are grateful to the Coalition and thankful
to Greg Hunt, Liberal MP for Flinders, Mitch Fifield, Liberal Senator for
Victoria and Mike Kabos, Liberal candidate for Bruce, for taking this issue to
heart and wanting to ensure that the blind and vision impaired children and
youth of Victoria at last have CHOICE in education.
We have worked tirelessly since January 2009 to make this a bipartisan issue, repeatedly calling on both sides of politics to support quality education for the blind. Unfortunately, we have received support from only one side, as you will hear in the link below, an mp3 recording of the 774 ABC radio debate on August 19 between Greg Hunt and Bill Shorten (Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities), hosted by Jon Faine.
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/local/melbourne/201008/r622525_4188679.mp3
Following the
debate, Greg Hunt invited Alan to speak at his environment policy press
announcement at 1 pm to make the case for Insight bipartisan funding.
If the Coalition gets elected
on Saturday, the blind and vision impaired children of Victoria will get a
school.
If you want
that to happen, there is now something very concrete that you can do.
No matter how
you voted in the past, or how you will vote in the future, this Saturday, a
vote for the Coalition means a school for the blind and vision impaired will
happen now.
Please pass
this message on to everyone you know.
Every vote is
worth $2.2 million for the blind and vision impaired kids of Victoria. Whatever
your political beliefs, and whatever your family’s, friends’ and colleagues’
beliefs, this year a Coalition win will make sure that our children and their
families have the services they so desperately need.
We urge you to
keep this in mind this Saturday.
We will keep
fighting, whatever it takes, as long as it takes, but we could wake up this
Monday with a new future for all vision impaired youth.
A big thank
you to all of you who support Insight.
All the best.
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Alan & Maria Franca Lachman
