& Family Support Centre
Home of Compassion
The Sisters of Compassion at their Home of Compassion in Island Bay, Wellington, were instrumental in the establishment of the ADD Assessment and Family Support Centre in July 2003 through their very generous provision of premises for the Centre and sponsorship towards funding the costs of running the Centre, in particular ensuring the provision of high quality assessment and treatment specialist services by paediatrician Dr Leo Buchanan.
www.compassion.org.nz
The Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion, commonly known as the Sisters of Compassion, is a congregation founded in New Zealand in 1892 by Suzanne Aubert.
The Sisters and co-workers are committed to work together in a spirit of compassion, openness and integrity to meet the needs of the aged, the sick, the oppressed and powerless in our communities.
Wellington, Island Bay is the site of the Congregation Headquarters and associated Services, a Parent Centre and a Child Care Centre.
In Wellington's inner city, the Suzanne Aubert Compassion Centre operates a soup kitchen and visits people in need.
In the Upper Hutt affordable quality housing for the elderly is provided.
Homes of Compassion for the care of the disabled and elderly are situated at Heretaunga, Wanganui, Suva (Fiji).
The Sisters of Compassion work with people in Wellington, Wanganui, Jerusalem, Porirua, Flaxmere, Wairarapa, Wainuiomata, Upper Hutt, Wairoa, Auckland, Fiji and Tonga and Wagga Wagga in Australia. This entails social work, pastoral ministries, prison chaplaincies, education ministries and care of the elderly.
"If we have more things to do than we can find time for, let us consider the time at our disposal, and let us employ it without losing a minute, beginning by the most important things, and not troubling about those which we cannot perform."
Suzanne Aubert Directory, 259:25