Glenside Lions have donated $1000 to the Australian Lions Spinal Cord Fellowship. Funds raised by the Lions Australia Spinal Cord Fellowship go to StepAhead Australia, an organisation regarded by the Federal Department of Health and Aging as the peak Australian entity searching for a cure for chronic spinal cord injury.
Around 15,000 Australians live with a spinal cord injury.
The purpose of the Fellowship is to “support StepAhead Australia (previously known as the Spinal Cord Society of Australia) in funding Australian Scientists or Clinicians to study the latest techniques of Spinal Cord injury both within Australia and the USA to the intent that the knowledge and experience so gained shall be made available to the Australian public. This funding shall subsidise salaries and expenses (including equipment) that are deemed necessary to help achieve the goals of the nominated Fellowship holders”.