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Empower Embraces 2020 Legacy Week

Posted on by Nicole Cook
Website Mary Burne
02
Sep

Mary Burne receiving her Legacy Week bear

Giving Back To The Community

During 2020 Legacy Week, running from 30 Aug – 5 Sep, we are handing out 100 Legacy Week bears to Aged Care residents, Home Care & NDIS clients that have a connection with Australia’s defence force services. Clients were also given the bears in recognition for their dedication and focus in achieving their health goals.

Empower Healthcare is a proud partner of Legacy Week in recognition of the thousands of Australian Defence Force personnel that have been playing an important role in supporting the Government’s response to COVID-19.

This partnership is very important to us as we have over 100 health workers engaged in delivering essential aged care and community healthcare services to vulnerable Australians nation-wide during a public health crisis that presents numerous challenges.

Scroll through our gallery of client stories on their appreciation of Legacy’s support to their families.…

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Legatees

Shirley McKechnie

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Website Shirley
02
Sep

“Widowed to an Air Force Pilot, Shirley’s husband joined the air force as soon as he turned 18. He never was deployed as part of the surrender treaty for WW2 as it had been been signed on the exact same day he had finished his training. Instead he flew around Darwin and later become a member of the famed formation aerobatic team the ‘Skydancers’.”…

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Miriam Jagger

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” My husband served in the army as a gunner in WWII. He signed up day 1 of the war and served until the treaty papers were signed. He was deployed to the Middle East as part of the Second 12th Australian Field Regiment 9th Division. They fought the German general Erwin Rommel and his tanks as one of the original members of the infamous Australian-led garrison the Rats of Tobruk. Over the course of the entire war, they had fired the most bullets from the cannon he was stationed on.”…

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Kathleen Mytton

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Website Kathleen Mytton
28
Aug

“I am truly grateful for Legacy and their amazing support. I was given a 50% scholarship for my schooling, which provided me with an additional year in my study.  My father was a warrant officer serving in Egypt and Libya. My brother was a coast watcher up in Darwin and was responsible for sighting Japanese ships and monitoring their movements.”…

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