About Us
The Pettet Foundation is a charity aimed at helping families and children in crisis since 2001.
We differ from other charitable support networks in that we can provide immediate assistance
This is often payment support in the form of immediate monetary funds, purchase vouchers, food vouchers or similar, but we can also arrange or provide counselling, budgeting and financial advice.
Often crisis situations arise from family breakdowns where a parent is suddenly left to fend for themselves and for their children. We work with schools, local councils, social workers, psychologists and other professional care teams to help in these times of critical need. We do not have provisions for long term assistance, and we generally do not have direct contact with recipients.
Some Examples
examples of recent needs that have been funded by the Pettet Foundation are:
Medical / Dental
- Purchase of bed sensor and epilepsy seizure kit for financially distressed family with child suffering from frequent and severe epilepsy
- Assistance with cost of medical implant for Kinglake child
- Contibuted to the cost of braces for a child
- Purchase of glasses for child struggling to read the board at school
- Purchase of therapeutic Warm Water Bath for financially distressed and health impaired child requiring specialised and on-going medical treatment
Education Costs
- Payment of school camp fees for children from many financially distressed families
- Assistance with cost of autism assessment of Grade 2 student at Mooroolbark East Primary School
- Literacy Intensive Program and subsequent Speech pathology consultation for financially distressed student at Heathmont East Primary School
- Support for 13 children from financially distressed families to attend intensive school swimming programs at Heathmont East Primary School
- Financial support – 8 sessions of occasional care for child with special needs due to behavioural and learning disabilities
- Payment of Term 1 swimming lessons for underprivileged child at Aurora School
Hardship
- Assistance with car registration for deserted wife with underprivileged children
- Food vouchers and telephone cards for distressed family referred by Eastern Access Community Health
- Payment of electricity account for financially distressed family
- Purchase of Coles vouchers for distressed family
- Purchase of sundry clothing items for underprivileged child to attend her Year 6 graduation ceremony
- Purchase of food and clothing vouchers for Xmas for financially distressed family at Bayswater South Primary School
- Support for victim of family violence to enter into bookkeeping course at Holmesglen TAFE
- Repairing a car for a single mother with four children so she can get to work
- Arranged emergency accommodation for a family in crisis