Community
Helping You and Your Community
Maybe you are wondering what charity you would like to support.
Here are the Charities Dr Paterson Supports, and Why.
Dr Paterson’s Favourite Charities
Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders)
Every dollar donated to this organisation puts fantastically dedicated volunteer doctors in places where natural or man made disasters have wreaked havoc on the local people. MSF provides those doctors with the medicines and facilities required in these tragically disadvantaged areas to help rebuild lives and bodies all over the world. These doctors, and MSF, deserve huge admiration and support for what they do.
Smith Family
Right on our own doorstep are kids with a ton of potential, who might never have the opportunity to realise it. By sponsoring a child's education in our own community, we are correcting the social injustices suffered by the young and innocent, and hopefully breaking the cycle of unemployment, violence, resentment and poverty. This is a most deserving cause.
Bedford Group
There are many people in our community with much to offer, but who suffer physical or intellectual disabilities, and who couldn't earn employment in the open job market. Here they have gainful employment, self-esteem, and a wonderfully supportive atmosphere. What a wonderful organisation.
Amy Gillet Foundation
Share the road. A metre matters. Let's support mutual respect and safety between motorists and cyclists. There is bloody-minded behaviour by a small minority in both groups that we hope to abolish by education, tolerance and respect.
Prostate SA
Hey guys! Over 50? It's no big deal to get a blood test every year or two, and preferably a quick check with a finger up the bum. Get over it! Then if there is anything suspicious, further tests will pick up cancer early enough that there is a high chance it can be eradicated before it gets out. Don't stick your head in the sand, and end up dying of the wasting disease like a couple of my friends, and my own father. Just do it! Be a man.