Eastern Community Legal Centre (ECLC) is holding its annual volunteer dinner on Thursday May 14. This year the event will also raise funds to support the bushfire affected communities.

Many of the residents of our communities, particularly in the Shire of Yarra Ranges, were directly affected by the bushfires and ECLC has been working hard with many others to provide support and assistance to these people. This support would not have been able to be provided without the generous assistance of both the Centre’s volunteers and local legal practitioners.

The dinner is a thank you to all of these volunteers. It is being held in Box Hill on Thursday May 14^th and will be attended by Centre volunteers, Board members and staff as well as legal practitioners and supporters from throughout the eastern region. The Centre’s patron, Chief Magistrate Ian Gray, will host the event. Guest speakers will include Christine Nixon, the Chair of the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority and Yarra Glen resident Dorothy Barber.

Funds raised from the event will be used to support Cameron House a Yarra Glen project to re-establish a local medical clinic. As there are currently no local medical facilities, many bushfire affected persons with ongoing health problems are forced to travel to Healesville or Lilydale for medical assistance. It is also a resource that we expect that ECLC would be able to utilise for our ongoing programs in the area.

If you would like to sponsor this event, attend or offer your support by making a donation, please contact our Box Hill office.

To view a copy of the invitation, please click here.

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