With more than $1,000,000 already distributed to children in need across South Australia, the Adelaide Crows Children’s Foundation is pleased to announce its charity partners for 2015.

The Adelaide Crows Children’s Foundation (formerly the ‘Crows Foundation’) has partnered with the Women’s & Children’s Hospital Foundation (WCHF), Suneden Special School, Epilepsy Centre and Life Education this year.

Over the next two years, a total of $60,000 will be contributed to support the work of the Women’s & Children’s Hospital Foundation. Crows players will also make fortnightly visits to the Children’s Hospital throughout the season, a rewarding experience for everyone involved.

With the planned relocation of the WCH from North Adelaide to the bio-medical precinct on North Terrace in the coming years, the Adelaide Crows Children’s Foundation wants to ensure that children in this state can access the best equipment and facilities available, now and in the future.

The Adelaide Crows Children’s Foundation has donated $15,000 to Life Education to ensure all children in identified low-socio economic areas of metropolitan and regional South Australia will have the opportunity to take part in their ‘bcyberwise’ education module, which is delivered to between 5,000-7,500 school children per year in Years 3 to 6. It is a sad fact that bullying, particularly online, is prevalent throughout the world, with Australia being no exception.

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The Epilepsy Centre will receive funding of $10,145 to establish a pilot programme to encourage and facilitate active sport and exercise in children with epilepsy. Many children are excluded from sports because of a fear that exercise will trigger a seizure and possibly cause injury. The reality is that seizures do increase injury risk. However, research shows that rarely does exercise itself trigger seizures. This program aims to educate sporting groups about epilepsy syndromes; to provide accredited epilepsy first aid and emergency medication training to relevant personnel; facilitate relationships between the child and sporting organisation and to promote participating organisations as Epilepsy Smart Sporting Organisations.

The Suneden School provides education and care to approximately 65 young people with intellectual and multiple physical disabilities. The Adelaide Crows Children’s Foundation will assist in the funding of a shade structure ($10,000) to cover the school’s Sensory Outdoor Play Space. We also hope to take some players along throughout the year to help with sports activities.

Thanks to Kyle Cheney, Rory Sloane and Crows Children’s Foundation Board Member Kyle Hartigan for joining Foundation Chairman, Keith Conlon to present WCHF CEO, Sam Tolley, with this year’s donation.