Christmas is for ever yone
Christmas is coming in the north-west of Sydney. Toffee is bubbling on the stove, and in a room bedecked with tinsel, families decorate gingerbread houses with musk sticks and freckles. At the table by the door, Asher Holland and his grandmother, Lyn, put the final touches to their Christmas tree, made from an upturned ice-cream cone, green piped icing and a rainbow of Christmas-bauble sweets. This is the first of the year’s hotly anticipated Christmas activities by Project CSC, which stands for Connect Support Community, and offers just that to families with kids who have additional needs.
“Christmas is Asher’s favourite time of year,” says his mum, Alli, one of the founders of this much loved Salvation Army initiative. “He likes to get up on Christmas morning and open the presents. Last year the penny dropped – what Christmas was – and he was so excited. He was tearing the paper open and couldn’t wait to see what was inside. That made it so much more fun
