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Chelsea Werner, an American champion world gymnast with Down Syndrome becomes a high fashion model

Chelsea Werner, an American champion world gymnast with Down Syndrome becomes a high fashion model

by Erika Petrie | Jul 17, 2020 | Articles, Current Affairs, Feel Good

Chelsea as a world champion gymnast Chelsea Werner, born with Down Syndrome and now 32 years of age never ceases to amaze us. With sheer determination and practice she has become world gymnastics champion twice over (despite low muscle tone she defied all...
Luca Trapanese who adopted a Down Syndrome child, as a single dad

Luca Trapanese who adopted a Down Syndrome child, as a single dad

by Erika Petrie | Jul 15, 2020 | Articles, Current Affairs, Feel Good

This is a truly heart-warming story…Luca Trapanese a young single man in Naples, Italy, years ago set up his own centre for disabled adults and children, a home from home where people with disabilities abandoned by their own families or in need of respite care...
A woman with Down Syndrome in Argentina becomes the first pre-school teacher (first case in Latin America)

A woman with Down Syndrome in Argentina becomes the first pre-school teacher (first case in Latin America)

by Erika Petrie | Jul 14, 2020 | Articles, Current Affairs, Feel Good

Four years ago, Noellia Garella, an argentine woman with Down Syndrome, who herself had been discriminated against and was called ‘a monster’ at school, became the very first woman to be accepted as a pre-school teacher. She was initially met with a great...
Article in Bournemouth Echo 23rd March 2020

Article in Bournemouth Echo 23rd March 2020

by Guest Writer | Jul 9, 2020 | Articles, Current Affairs, Feel Good

The challenges of setting up a charity for disabled children by Jane Holmes

The challenges of setting up a charity for disabled children by Jane Holmes

by Guest Writer | Jul 3, 2020 | Articles, Current Affairs

In 2007, when we, a group of mothers of disabled children from Wokingham, Berkshire, announced to our community that we wanted to open a community centre for our children and others like them, it was perhaps surprising that anyone believed us. I think it was our...
Shouldn’t children and adults with Down Syndrome have the same rights as us?

Shouldn’t children and adults with Down Syndrome have the same rights as us?

by Erika Petrie | Jul 1, 2020 | Articles, Current Affairs

This Morning on the BBC, there was a very moving interview with James and Heidi Crowter, both young individuals in their 20s with Down Syndrome, who in a few days time after the restrictions of lockdown have been lifted somewhat, will be tying the knot. Taking a look...
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