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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-362/
- Published: 2021-05-16T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-05-16T08:48:59.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Health, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

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Protester Tetraplegic Sophia Malthus outside the Laura Fergusson Rehabilitation Centre in Greenlane. Image credit The BFD.

> Tetraplegic **Sophia Malthus** was among disabled protesters clutching placards who rallied in Greenlane today calling on authorities to save the Laura Fergusson Trust.  
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> The Trust supports young disabled people with physical and neurological impairments.  
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> Its rehabilitation centre has been providing treatment from its home and respite care unit for almost half a century, so young people with disabilities don’t have to be confined in rest homes.  
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> But the Trust closed the facility under a cloud of secrecy last year, outraging those families who depended on the service.  
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> \[…\] “It is such a vital centre for someone like me, who at 19 recovering from those injuries being put in a rest home would have affected not just my physical but mental health.”

[Read the full article here. ](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/disabled-protesters-demand-reprieve-for-laura-fergusson-trust-in-auckland/OZTPDDQ73H3IB2LY4H2R4LN3WY/?ref=goodoil.news)Comment on it on *The BFD.*