November 19, 2010

Cheryl and Ernie,

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you and the Strathroy Cruisers once again for your generous donation to Middlesex Community Living last night. The donation we received from the Strathroy Caradoc Cruisers will enable us to ensure that the people we support have safe and easy access to their homes. As an ongoing commitment to accessibility, Middlesex Community Living will be using the money towards a new ramp at one of our houses.

Middlesex Community Living has been assisting people with intellectual disabilities to attain independence and inclusion within the Strathroy Caradoc community for 45 years. The sum of our success can be attributed to the generous support of organizations such as the Strathroy Caradoc Cruisers. Motivating a group of people to embrace the opportunity to support their community by participating in something they love to do, is a truly inspiring and laudable achievement, of which we are truly humbled and moved by.

As requested, I have included a description of Middlesex Community Living for your website and the logo. If you have any problems opening the file of require more information about Middlesex Community Living, please feel free to contact out Manager of Public Relations, Sionainn Pryce-Hynes. She would be more than happy to assist you with any of your requests.

Sionainn

Middlesex Community Living is a not-for-profit organization that supports and advocates for the rights of adults with intellectual disabilities. Currently we support over 80 people in the Strathroy-Caradoc community. We support people who have a variety of intellectual disability diagnoses including; general developmental delay, Down syndrome, Fetal Alcohol syndrome, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, as well as many others. It is our vision and mission to develop and sustain an inclusive community and to champion and support people to learn, to define, and to live to their fullest potential.

Middlesex Community Living has several programs and services that offer an abundance of benefits to both the people we support and the Strathroy-Caradoc community at large. Some services and programs assist people with their personal goals and outcomes directly, while others are devoted

to supporting people in their day to day living. Middlesex Community Living offers accommodation services, supported employment programs, continuing education classes and leisure and recreational activities.