VisAbility’s Perron Centre for Sale

For a number of years I did work for what was then called the Association for the Blind of Western Australia now known as VisAbility. I have watch with both alarm and sadness as the role of that organization has shrivelled. Programs have been cut, staff reduced until this latest development the sale of their specially built centre for the blind in Victoria Park. They are truly now becoming "invisAbililty".

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