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Carers get help to understand the internet
Volunteers help ‘make a difference’ to carers
Date published: 09 November 2011
Tech-savvy Rochdale folk gave up their time to help carers pick up vital IT skills as part of a day of action to highlight the efforts of volunteers in the community.
Around 16 volunteers who regularly offer their time and skills through the Council for Voluntary Services Rochdale (CVSR) headed to the Ronald Gorton Centre to teach carers how to get online.
Parents are Carers to 4year old son with rare Batten’s disease
‘Our son won’t live past ten’: Parents become full-time carers for child blighted by fatal brain disease effecting 200 in UK
- Four-year-old unlikely to make it to his tenth birthday and unable to walk or talk
- Condition is so rare parents’ chance of meeting and conceiving him was one in two billion
Last updated at 3:18 PM on 9th November 2011
Distraught parents have told how their son is slowly being poisoned by his own brain.
Blighted by a fatal neurological disorder, four-year-old Morgan Mawson is unlikely to make it to his tenth birthday and is unable to walk or talk.
He is one of 200 children in the UK who have infantile Batten’s disease which is so rare his parents’ chance of meeting and conceiving him was only one in two billion.
Forgotten Heroes reaches out to carers
Finding the carers
For every seriously injured serviceman or woman flown back to Britain there is at least one unpaid carer. There are currently more than six million carers in the country, eleven per cent of the population.
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