Celebrating her 75th birthday in 2024, just like Juniper, long-standing St David’s Residential Aged Care Home volunteer Val Kissack loves nothing more than helping others.
“I started volunteering when my little girl was nine years old, now she’s 49,” Val said.
“It was how I was brought up, you helped people.”
A retired nurse, Val first dedicated herself to volunteering as a “canteen mistress” at her daughter’s primary school, then later set up a lunch program for people sleeping rough as well as taking people to and from local churches for several years – something she continues to do each week.
Val first lent a hand at St David’s in 2009 when her mother was a resident, and became an official Juniper volunteer the following year.
Since then, Val has set aside her Mondays and Wednesdays, and sometimes Fridays, to a carry out variety of duties at St David’s in Mount Lawley.
From helping with church services, setting dining tables, cleaning, tending a vegetable garden to mending clothing, delivering morning teas and supporting the therapy department, Val is a non-stop support machine.
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