Help Aussie kids be kids
Every child has the right to attain their full potential regardless of ability or background.
All children deserve the same opportunities in life.
Variety – the Children’s Charity supports children and families who are facing many challenges through sickness, disadvantage or living with a disability.
Thanks to your kindness and generosity, we make life better for young people just like 16-year-old Annika. Annika’s family turned to Variety because they had nowhere else to go. With our thoughtful supporters like you, Annika now has the wonderful new wheelchair that can lift her to a standing position and relieve her pain.
Annika's Story
Annika lives with quadriplegic cerebral palsy, causing her continuous and debilitating back pain and increasingly restricted ranges of limb movement as a result of long periods spent sitting or lying.
The help Annika needed most was a specialised powered wheelchair, with a standing function to regularly move her young body, help reduce back pain and give her more confidence by providing life-altering physical therapy benefits and freedom.
Help when it’s needed most
Every child deserves the chance to be the best they can be, to get the most out of life, regardless of their ability or background.
Ways that we help
Mobility
Variety helps children gain independence and freedom by providing financial support for things like wheelchairs, walking frames, hoists and vehicle modifications.
Medical
Variety helps families care for children with a medical condition in their own home by providing vital medical items and equipment like feeds, nappies, orthotics, seizure alarms and sensory equipment.
Schools and organisations
Variety helps schools and organisations with things like all-ability playgrounds, Liberty swings (modified for special needs), and sunshine coaches for transporting children, which can be wheelchair modified.
To children and families in need, who can’t afford specialist care and equipment, and when government support isn’t available.