Ross Vasta (Bonner, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I had a great experience recently, connecting a local not-for-profit organisation with a local business, all for a great cause. Makeables Tingalpa, which is part of Multicap High Needs Disability Support, is a not-for-profit disability employer. Since 1991, Makeables has provided employment, job skills and lasting working relationships for people with high-needs disability. Multicap's business manager, Joshua Walsh, recently reached out to me asking for help connecting with businesses in the area. Makeables offers fantastic services for local businesses. This includes manual assembly and finishing services such as packaging, bag sealing and labelling. This can save businesses in employment costs and warehousing space. Makeables employees also benefit from these arrangements. It gives employees life-changing skills and training.

I had the great pleasure of meeting these employees at Makeables Tingalpa this month and seeing their work firsthand. I thank my good friend David Bateson from Wynnum Business for putting Makeables in touch with Little Images, a local childcare photography business. Owner Leigh Farley says that Makeables employees have done great work putting together a promotional mail-out for Little Images. Makeable employees folded letters and brochures for Little Images and inserted them into windowed envelopes to be sent to prospective clients. They also included a chocolate drink, so people could read over everything with a nice cup of hot chocolate. I'm glad to have helped make this arrangement possible.