About Us
Aid for the Blind was founded over 40 years ago by Gordon and Reverend Elsie Dodd. Their mission was simple: to improve working conditions and provide affordable self-contained living accommodation.
Today we operate 32 independent living units in Fairfield, Brisbane and raise funds by operating opportunity shops. This year we will start building 8 new units at our Fairfield site. We have also provided a grant of $100,000-00 for research into educational methods, anticipating combining government and industry assistance to provide meaningful goals and expectations, improving old and developing new technology in Braille and computers. Hopefully, this will lead to a centre of excellence for the future. We are grateful to Griffith University agreeing to undertake this research on behalf of Aid for the Blind.
We are a self-funded charity who needs your help to achieve the highest possible expectations for meaningful employment and future opportunities for the vision impaired. The more of you who join our vision the stronger we can become to achieve these goals that are affordable and readily available to all vision impaired persons.
Aid for the Blind is asking for your interest and involvement to better the lives and futures of the vision impaired by raising their expectations for the future.
Please contact the office and register your interest.
Board of Directors
Currently there are 10 Directors. The
Board must have a minimum of four Directors who are vision impaired or
blind to ensure relevance and equity as stated in our Constitution (136kb).
The board of Directors meets
monthly and contact information
is available via the office.
CEO and Staff
Paul Dakin has been CEO of Aid for the Blind since 2002. The CEO is supported part-time by Office Manager Karen Thompson.
Annual Report
Reports on the activities
of the organisation are available on request.
Please contact our main office for further information.