Tetraplegic Sophia Malthus was among disabled protesters clutching placards who rallied in Greenlane today calling on authorities to save the Laura Fergusson Trust.
The Trust supports young disabled people with physical and neurological impairments.
Its rehabilitation centre has been providing treatment from its home and respite care unit for almost half a century, so young people with disabilities don’t have to be confined in rest homes.
But the Trust closed the facility under a cloud of secrecy last year, outraging those families who depended on the service.
[…] “It is such a vital centre for someone like me, who at 19 recovering from those injuries being put in a rest home would have affected not just my physical but mental health.”
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