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FOSTER carers and their impact on young lives were celebrated at GMBHA Stadium last week during Meli’s third annual Foster a Future Breakfast.

The annual event blended humour, emotion and lived experience to honour the local carers who provide children with stability and safety, and raise awareness for the urgent need for more families to open their homes to children in need.

Australian cricketing great Lisa Sthalekar delivered the keynote address, stepping in as a late replacement for disability awareness and family support advocate Sophie Delezio, who had to withdraw to attend to a family matter.

Sthalekar spoke movingly of her own beginnings. Abandoned as a newborn in India, she spent her first weeks in an orphanage in Chennai.

She was later adopted into an Au

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