Celebrating International Day of People with Disability with Dylan Alcott

International Day of People with Disability is a United Nations sanctioned day. It aims to increase public awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with disability and celebrate their achievements and contributions.

The theme for 2018 is ‘Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equality’. According to the United Nations, 2018’s theme focuses on empowering people with disabilities for an inclusive, equitable and sustainable development.

Here at Karista, we are big fans of Dylan Alcott and the positive message he spreads about being a person with a disability. Dylan embodies 2018’s theme with his mission to help young people come to terms with their disability and help them to reach their full potential.

Through his sporting career, media and speaking engagements, Dylan is showing the world that people with a disability can do anything and are only limited by their imagination. By being a visible presence in Australia, Dylan is helping to normalise disability and remove stigma.

If you’d like to read more about Dylan Alcott, follow the links to a recent Guardian profile and the Dylan Alcott Foundation.

If you’d like to find out more about IDPwD and events happening near you click here

Sources: The Guardian, International Day of People with Disability and the Dylan Alcott Foundation.

Photo Courtesy of Vogue Australia

How the Invictus Games are educating young people

The Invictus Games has been about more than the sports; it has also been an opportunity for the school kids of Sydney to learn lessons of resilience and inclusion.

A joint project of the NSW Education Department and the Invictus Games, the education project invites students to explore the ideas of resilience, empathy, service, inclusion and the healing nature of sport and community.

For Tilda Brownlow, (who was born with fibular hemimelia and had her left leg amputated at 2); the Games are a chance for her to see others who share the same physical challenges excel, and to be inspired by them. It is also just as inspiring for Tilda’s able bodied classmates and gives them a chance to experience life in a wheelchair by playing a game of wheelchair basketball.

To read more about this excellent program and Tilda, please see the attached link

Sources: ABC, Invictus Games

Tilda Brownlow

Photo Courtesy of the ABC