Local disability support charity Sunshine Butterflies are taking a huge step in their mission to improve the lives of those living with disability and their families.
They are spreading their wings and expanding their existing 5-acre ‘Our Backyard’ property in Cooroibah onto the 10-acre property next door.
Due to the high demand for Sunshine Butterflies services and facilities, the disability support service and charity has now outgrown their space.
Founder and CEO Leanne Walsh said, “By purchasing the 10-acre property next door it’s going to help us expand all our services, all our support including our recreational and educational programs and activities.”
“One of the key things we will be providing is small-scale, residential supported homes for those living with disability on the Sunshine Coast.
“There is actually no true affordable housing available for people with disability, so for Sunshine Butterflies to be able to provide this to our families is really quite life-changing.”
Sunshine Butterflies have just released a heart-warming fundraising video campaign featuring Founder and CEO Leanne Walsh, Ambassadors Jimmy and Tam (winners of The Block 2020) and their team of builders, town planners and architects who have been by their side since very humble beginnings.
This campaign calls to the community to help them raise $500,000 to make this dream a reality.
The charity said it will be especially beneficial for the most vulnerable members of the community who are also suffering from the current housing crisis.
“As a mum of a child with disability, it is really important for us to know moving forward that our child is going to safe, secure and supported,” Leanne said.
Taylor’d Distinction Building Designer, Peter Taylor said the development of the next 10-acres of Sunshine Butterflies “will be on a small scale and very much in touch with nature and the beautiful surroundings of the Noosa countryside”.
Town Planner RG Strategic Rusell Green said, “They’ll be nothing else like it on the Sunshine Coast, if in Queensland, and so as always Sunshine Butterflies are going to be at the forefront of delivering to the community.”
Ambassadors Jimmy and Tam are blown away by the ‘amazing space’.
“You can just feel the love straight away when you walk through the gates of ‘Our Backyard’. This expansion is going to change lives,” they said.
Donate via www.sunshinebutterflies.com.au/blog/help-us-grow/ to help Sunshine Butterflies expand to the 10-acre property next door.
