SED pe Se nd a Ss a seer Mothers’ March — to continue _ through weekend Terrace Kismen and Kinettes and: other Mothers’ March volunteers will continue their annual fund-raising efforts to support the Kinsmen Rehabilitation Founda- . tion until Jan. 31, when this year’s Mothers’ March con- cludes. Organizers reported that five local restaurants par- ticipated in the Mothers’ March Meals program on Jan. 16 and 17: the Sandman Inn, Slumberlodge, Quarterdeck and Bavarian Inn all donated one dollar for each meal sold on one day of the weekend days. The Northern Motor Inn made a cash donation. The Terrace Kinsmen have provided the following profile of the Kinsmen Rehabilitation Foundation. _ Over 30 years ago, when British Columbia Kinsmen Clubs rose to ‘‘meet the com- munity’s greatest needs’’, they could not have realized the im- pact their generosity would have on the entire field of rehabilita- tion. From 1944 to 1955, the great- est need was to help the many victims of the poliomyelitis epidemics ravaging the province. During those years, over 3,000 people in B.C, were affected by the disease whose very name struck terror. Some died, many more were left severely disabled for life. As early as 1944, the Van- couver Kinsmen Club began raising funds to help combat the . disease and 1948 saw the entire provincial district of clubs form and support the British Colum- bia Polio Fund. The rapid growth of the fund and the ob- vious need for its continued ex- ‘istence, led to its formal registra-" tion as a charitable society in January 1952, Today, the society is known as ‘the Kinsmen Rehabilitation Foundation (KRF) of British Columbia. The name change in- dicates the change in direction taken after the immediate threat of polio had been relieved by mass vaccination, much of it paid for by the Polio Fund. The District Five (B.C.) Kinsmen felt the next need was for rehabilita- tion of post-polio patients and extended the foundation’s man- date to include those disabled in any other way. ‘In the early days, money for the needs of polio victims was raised through ‘‘Pennies for . Paralysis’? coin collectors and mail solicitation. In 1953, the district Kinsmen organized the first province-wide personal ap- peal for funds, a one-hour, ‘porch light’? blitz called the Mothers’ March on Polio, rais- ing $143,000. Today, the annual Kinsmen Mothers’ March involves almost ' 30,000 volunteers throughout the province, collecting door-to- door in their own neighbor- hoods during the week-long campaign. Last year, the march raised just over $1.1 million and upwards of $1.2 million is re- quired to maintain the current level of services provided to disabled citizens of British Col- umbia by the KRF. Over these many years, the foundation has consistently led the way in providing the best re- habilitation equipment and ser- vices ‘available ‘to its clients. As -well as assisting various rehab- ilitation facilities and self-help groups with financial grants, the KRF has four direct service pro- grams, The Patient Care and Equip- ment Loans program has been in existence since the polio epidemics of the late 1940’s. Through this program, basic medical equipment is loaned to those who need it, and financial assistance can be arranged for — those requiring many types of. rehabilitation services they just cannot afford. If the department is unable to provide the required assistance, they will investigate ae Terrace Review — Wednesday, January 27, 1988 13 The Skeena Junior Secondary Sclence Club is building a 25 centimeter Dobsonian reflector telescope for this year's Science Fair. Teacher and club sponsor Allen Wootton shows T-Jay McKenzie and Chris Harker how the telescope body will fit into the swivel mount. country, supplying technical and communication aids to its clients. The Disabled Living Resource Center is a more recent direct service initiated by the Programs grams to aid in this awareness Department for the foundation. effort. IMAGE, the journal of It features an up-to-date display the KRF, published quarterly, with the latest in available equip- with a readership of 60,000 ment and appliances available to world wide, is recognized as a disabled users, as well as a large leader in rehabilitation publica- library of information, books tions. The ‘‘Kids on the Block’’, and periodicals concerning an educational puppet show that disabled living. Information is teaches ~elementary school available both in person and on children (and others) about the telephone, and if not con- disabilities, is made available tained in the DLRC files, will be. free-of-charge across B.C. by researched by the staff foranin- the Public Education Depart- terested caller. ment. Through its Public Education — Department, the foundation has a mandate to educate the public about disabilities and disabled people and has established pro- the case, and refer the client to another source, With a firm commitment to a Technical Aids program in 1971, the ERF became a Canadian leader in the use of modern technology to help the severely disabled. In 1973, the founda- tion made rehabilitation history by supplying the first electronic environmental control unit in Canada to one of its patients. For their pioneering work in establishing technical aids in Canada, the KRF received the 1975 Reader’s Digest Rehabilita- tion Award. 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