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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Megan Doherty

Delivering help where it's most urgently needed

Capital Region Muscular Dystrophy secretary Rob Oakley, Together4Youth chief executive officer Andrew Turvey, Mental Health Mob founder Kristen Franks and (front) Power Chair Football League player Brandan Stroud at yesterday's grants announcement. Picture by Gary Ramage

Local families will get a box of fresh food each week for a year, more people with muscular dystrophy will understand the freedom of playing Power Chair Football and a local Indigenous woman will have greater resources to address mental health problems in her community thanks to grants distributed by the Canberra Foundations Collaborative.

Almost $1.3 million has been divided between 57 projects by the collaboration of local charities - Hands Across Canberra which administers the Chief Minister's Charitable Fund, the Snow Foundation and the John James Foundation.

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