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Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 8:18 am
Christmas has come early for the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder (FASD) community this year in the guise of a
$210,000 contract with the Ministry of Health using money
from the Government’s Proceeds of Crime fund.
Up
until now FASD-CAN, the New Zealand organisation supporting
families and those with FASD since 2013, has been operating
on donations and the goodwill of volunteers.
Claire
Gyde, founding Chairperson of FASD-CAN says the funding is
much appreciated and will help the organisation to support
and mentor families living with
FASD.
“It’s been a long time coming”
she says. “With this funding, we can increase our reach