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Australian Disability and Indigenous Peoples' Education Fund
Australian Disability and Indigenous Peoples' Education Fund
Following thirty-four years involvement in disability advocacy, Frank Hall-Bentick has asked his sisters Lesley and Annette and a group of friends Rae, Lyndall, Cath, Ros and Jody to help him setup and run an education fund for people with disability. Titled the Australian Disability and Indigenous Peoples' Education Fund (ADIPEF), the fund will assist indigenous and non-indigenous people with disability to participate in both formal and informal education programs through small grants. Frank has a life-long disability and along with other members of his family has experienced many years of hospitalisation, special schools and disability services. For the last thirty years Frank has been involved in disability advocacy and the empowerment of people with disability locally, nationally and internationally. Realising that the work to empower people with disability is ongoing he has long considered the best way to support this is through further education and learning. In April 2008 he with his sisters and these friends set up the Australian Disability and Indigenous Peoples' Education Fund (ADIPEF) under the auspice of the Australian Communities Foundation. This Fund will assist people with disability gain empowerment through access to formal and informal education programs.
This education fund is about helping people complete or undertake courses and programs through providing small grants. Our fund is looking to distribute small six monthly grants of up to $2,500 to assist people with disabilities to continue their learning. The Australian Disability and Indigenous Peoples’ Education Fund is open for applications. The closing dates for the Education Fund are every six months at the end of March and September each year. Application close on September 30th, 2015 .Enquiries are Welcome.
Contact: for further details and an application form go to www.adipef.org.au or contact Frank at info [at] adipef [dot] org [dot] au
