Clients, volunteers and staff at Omnicare Alliance’s Hastings and Camden Haven day centres, branches and offices have rallied to bring festive cheer to their communities.
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The not-for-profit organisation has collected enough items to fill 18 Christmas hampers. These will be distributed by the Port Macquarie Women’s Refuge and the Salvation Army.
In keeping with Omnicare’s philosophy of providing meaningful and purposeful activities that promote social connections and help retain skills, clients living with dementia rolled up their sleeves to pack hampers at the Morton Street day centre, in Port Macquarie.
These had been collected from Omnicare’s Morton Street, Greenmeadows, Laurieton and Wauchope day centres; the Laurieton Home Care team; the Port Macquarie, Laurieton and Wauchope Meals on Wheels branches; and Hastings Home Modifications.
Further afield, the other Omnicare Alliance offices also donated to local causes, with Kempsey Women’s Refugee the beneficiary of hampers from the Kempsey Meals on Wheels branch, Parklands Cottage day centres at Kempsey and South West Rocks.
Riding for the Disabled in Sawtell has received a hamper from the local Meals on Wheels branch, while the local Women’s Refuge will benefit from the generosity of the Meals branches at Taree and Forster.
Omnicare Alliance joint-CEO John Carroll is proud of the collective response.
“Our staff, volunteers and clients got right behind the Christmas Hamper drive,” he said ‘Now we have 23 overflowing Christmas Hampers from across our regions to go out to local families, including 18 in the Port Macquarie-Hastings area.
“It’s fantastic to see our efforts have nearly doubled from our first year in 2017.
“It has become a cherished Christmas tradition for our teams already.”
Omnicare Alliance is one of the largest community aged and disability care support providers on the Mid North Coast, following the merger between four local not-for profits – Hastings District Respite Care, Meals on Wheels MNC, Hastings Home Modifications and Parklands Cottage.
In 2018, Hastings Headway also joined the organisation. Omnicare Alliance provides services to the communities in Port Macquarie, Sawtell, Kempsey, Wauchope, Camden Haven, Taree and the Great Lakes.
