Our Projects

APOPO

Over 60 countries are contaminated with hidden landmines and other explosive remnants of war, that cause tragic accidents and hamper communities from developing their productive land.

Meanwhile, slow and inaccurate detection methods make tuberculosis the world’s most deadly infectious disease. 10.6 million new people contracted TB in 2022, 3.1 million went undiagnosed, and 1.3 million died from the disease.

APOPO’s scent detection animals, nicknamed ‘HeroRATs’ and ‘HeroDOGs’, help to rid the world of landmines and tuberculosis – returning safe land back to communities for development, and freeing people from serious illness so they can get back on their feet.

At Knox Chiropractic & Wellness,  we have sponsored Ronin. Ronin is a gentle landmine detection rat and loves shoulder rides. On the minefield he is focused and hardworking. Based in Cambodia, Ronin sniffs out deadly explosives faster than conventional solutions.

Australian Chiropractic College

The Australian Chiropractic College (ACC) was established by a passionate group of industry practitioners, committed to ensuring that future generations – our children, grandchildren and beyond- have access to excellent, dedicated, chiropractic care.

The ACC program has been designed with public safety as a priority; providing a holistic, ‘job ready’ focus on chiropractic education. Our bachelor degree students will graduate well prepared – and appropriately skilled – for long term careers dedicated to chiropractic.

Dr. Matt is a Neurology lecturer at the college and is very passionate about chiropractic research.

Dr. Jen is a sessional student clinician, supervising ACC final year chiropractic students in Cambodia as part of their student placement.

Australian Spinal Research Foundation

At Australian Spinal Research Foundation, we’re developing a clear understanding of vertebral subluxation and its effects, by funding scientifically testable research drawing on the philosophical tenets of chiropractic. We lead our profession by facilitating global research in the areas of vertebral subluxation science and the clinical benefits of chiropractic care for the human population.

Dr. Jen is the Vice President of the Australian Spinal Research Foundation, where you will find many of our current clients partaking in our Case Studies project to showcase our contribution to chiropractic research.

Clothes for Good Fiji

Australian clothing donations are collected in Australia and being sold for profit to the pacific. Clothes For Good saw that Australia’s not-for-profit, pre-loved store model didn’t exist in Fiji, and set about changing that.

Clothes For Good opened the first ever pre-loved charity store in Nabua Fiji on December 7, 2023, which was soon followed with our second stores opening in Lami.

We now serve thousands of customers in Fiji, giving them access to pre-loved, and in some cases new, clothing and goods, while raising desperately needed funds for Fijian charities, and supporting causes such as animal welfare, people with disabilities and those fleeing domestic violence.

We save hundreds of thousands of pieces of clothing from landfill each year, and ensure Australia’s excess items are used to make a difference to our Fijian neighbours.

Restore One Charity

Restore One Charity is our biggest service project at Knox Chiropractic & Wellness.

Our mission is to break poverty; one child, one family, one community at a time.

In November 2016, we opened the Restore One Secondary School. The children learn the standard Khmer curriculum, but learn English as well. Here, they will obtain the skills needed to get a good job. One of our biggest expenses is teachers’ wages. The wages are approximately AUS$13,000/month.

Dr. Jen is the volunteer chiropractor for Restore One Charity.

You will also find our clients with full trolleys at ‘back to school’ sales to assist the education of Cambodian children in impoverished areas.

In Cambodia, education is the difference between a life of prosperity and a life-sentence of abject poverty, exploitation and even slavery.

Rotary Club of Rowville-Lysterfield

Share the Dignity

Share the Dignity works to make a real, on-the-ground difference to the lives of women, girls and those who menstruate who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness, domestic violence or poverty.

We distribute period products to those in need and work to achieve menstrual equity here in Australia. When someone is doing it tough, the last thing on their mind should be dealing with their period.

Sherman College of Chiropractic

Sherman College of Chiropractic was founded by Drs. Thom and Betty Gelardi on the premise that its students would be educated and trained to become doctors of chiropractic who focus on the analysis and adjustment of vertebral subluxation. For 50 years, that has been our sole purpose.  We use the latest scientific objective indicators to help guide our students in the analysis of vertebral subluxation so that they are competent and confident doctors of chiropractic.