Learning To Fly:
Looking Back With
The First Seeds Fund
Janine Garner
If you watch the video embedded on the opposite
page, you may understand just why LBDGroup
members are so invested in their philanthropic
arm, The First Seeds Fund. Warwick Farm is a
place that has become a part of everyone who has
visited it; and everyone who has visited has not
only said ‘what can I do to help’, but made their
skills, their hearts, and their resources available to
the community.
whose story of survival against the odds is so
astonishingly sad, frightening - and of course,
strong in spirit - that it is quite difficult to write
about.
For me, Carrie’s story - Flying on Broken Wings resonates very strongly with that of many of the
women and girls we see at Warwick Farm. They
have faced brutality and hardship that we can’t
even begin to imagine.
2014 was a big year for First Seeds. It saw us being
able to deliver new bikes and computers to the
kids at Warwick Farm. It saw scholarship programs
put in place. It saw mentoring opportunities,
amazing work in the Community Centre from the
incredible Pat Hall, and partnerships with Club
Kidpreneur. Most of all, it saw continuing hope for
a place which once sa r