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Achieving goals across the state –
with your help
The festive season is a very special time of the year. It’s a time for sharing and celebrating the year’s achievements with family and friends.
I would like to share Ekayla’s Story with you…
Ekayla turned 21 at the end of September. Ekayla, like most people, wants to be independent and to make a better future for herself.
Ekayla has an intellectual disability, which makes achieving these goals potentially much more difficult. Ekayla also lives in regional South Australia where all the programmes to help her develop the necessary skills are not always available.
Fortunately Ekayla was able to join the Bedford Wallaroo Community Garden Day Options programme after finishing school. Bedford Day Options offers a variety of recreational and developmental activities across South Australia for people with moderate to high support needs who are not ready or unable to enter the workforce.
Since joining the programme Ekayla has gone from strength to strength. Ekayla is focusing on building social skills, working as part of a team, making choices, understanding money management, learning how to shop and other skill development activities.
Attending the Wallaroo programme means Ekayla has maintained existing friendships from school and the local community.
For Ekayla this aspect of the programme is of great importance. To be surrounded by people she knows and who understand her well, means Ekayla’s every achievement is acknowledged and celebrated with friends and family every day.
Please give what you can this Christmas so that more people like Ekayla have the opportunity to achieve their potential – today, tomorrow and for the rest of their lives.
