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By Danny Rose
December 1, 2014
The Salvos are hoping a donations dry spell is over and its annual Christmas appeal will raise $15 million to fund vital welfare services.
The tough federal budget and Salvation Army-related revelations before the child abuse Royal Commission triggered a shortfall in the Salvos’ Red Shield Appeal Doorknock earlier this year.
Dr Bruce Redman said the Salvos, like the broader community, was shocked by the revelations of abuse suffered by children at homes it ran in Queensland and NSW in the 1960s and 1970s.
He said it showed the Salvos were not immune from the “scourge of child abuse”.
“The revelations of the royal commission have been shocking to all of us,” Mr Redman, who is Salvation Army communications director, told AAP.
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