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| Some Christmas Gift Ideas | |
Hannah's Christmas Gift
by Bruce Sullivan (father of a girl with Down syndrome)
A story about your life and the choices you make!
This book will challenge you to purposefully think about what you are doing with your one life. Hannah’s story is beautifully combined with very simple, practical advice and will allow you to quickly and easily take back control of your life and get busy doing what matters most.
Price $25 ($10.00 from your purchase will be donated to Down Syndrome NSW). Email marketing@dsansw.org.au
Drink to us!
Introducing the Down Syndrome NSW Wine Service...
You can now enjoy good wine and make a difference at the same time.
Through our fundraising wine service you can now buy quality wine direct from the winery, which provides a donation of $20 per case to Down Syndrome NSW.
With Competitive prices, FREE delivery and a money-back guarantee, making a difference has never been easier or more enjoyable. Click here to browse and place your order.
DS NSW Calendar 2009: Feeling Fine
The 2009 Calendar is available now and selling fast. Only a small number are left, so to avoid disappointment order now.
An order form to fax or mail back is included with your Spring 2008 Newsletter (mailing 29th August), or you can click here to download the order form.
Still priced at $15.00 each, including GST, postage and handling, the Down Syndrome NSW Calendar makes a great end of year gift for friends, family, teachers, and an enduring source of awareness about people with Down syndrome.
Email this link to friends to the order form and order their own copies: www.dsansw.org.au/index.php?pg=109
Entertainment Book 2008 - 2009
The Entertainment Book is a popular discount voucher system for restaurants and activities across Sydney that enables you to support Down Syndrome NSW while you save money. Funds generated are directed to developing our library collection - books buying books!
Click here for order forms for the 2008 - 2009 edition of the Entertainment Book |
| | BUDDY WALK - AUSTRALIA 2008 | |
During Down Syndrome Awareness Week this year (11 -19 October) a record number of Buddy Walks were held in Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong, Adelaide, Perth, Wagga Wagga and other localities around Australia.
Click here to view & congratulate our Buddy Walk heroes for completing their Walks...
Click here to view the Buddy Walk Photo Gallery.
Click here to view the Newcastle Buddy Walk Photo Gallery.
Click here to view the Buddy Walk in the Gong Photo Gallery
To add your photos, please send them to photos@buddywalk.org.au, or send a CD/ prints to DS NSW...
Read reports below and also at our blog Keeping Up With Down Syndrome NSW ...
Listen to DS NSW member Gina Walsh talk to 2GB's Alan Jones - click here
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| | BUDDY WALK - SYDNEY, 2008 | |
Thank you to everyone who joined us today (Sunday 19th October) for Buddy Walk-Australia 2008, in Sydney. We had glorious sunshine, a leisurely walk across the Harbour Bridge to a beautiful waterside park in Kirribilli, and a gentle sea breeze .... perfect! We don't know the exact numbers yet, but certainly more than 500 people helped to celebrate the lives of people with Down syndrome.
Congratulations to Priscilla Leong (DS NSW Events and Marketing Coordinator), who put months of planning into the Walk and her wonderful teams of volunteers, and to Tara Grech (of 'everyone can dance') who co-ordinated the picnic site. It all seemed effortless to those of us there as participants - but we know it wasn't!
Our thanks to
- Buddy Walk Patron, Virginia Judge MP, Minister for Fair Trading & Citizenship, who cut the ribbon to start the Walk
- all of the walkers - friends and families. You made the day!
- those who provided the sausage sizzle, juice stand, coffee van, face painting, raffle stall, music (wasn't Tegan Rogers great?), dancing, games and the fabulous amenities in this lovely location
- the army pf volunteers who marshalled, set up, kept things running and packed and cleaned up
- and of course, our very grateful thanks to everyone who bought raffle tickets, organised sponsorships, and made donations - your generosity is much appreciated
- thank you all for cleaning up after your own group - it kept the final clean-up manageable, and left the park looking ready for its next event
See also www.sydney.buddywalk.org.au
For more Buddy Walk photos and reports, go to our blog, Keeping Up With Down Syndrome NSW |
| | BUDDY WALK REPORTS - Wollongong & Newcastle | |
First photos from the Wollongong Buddy Walk-Australia 2008 - it was a beautiful day. Congratulations to Tracy Barker and her team of organisers, and thank you to everyone who participated yesterday (Sunday 12th October):
 
Click here for more photos from Buddy Walk in the Gong.
The Inaugural Newcastle Buddy Walk was held on the same day. Maureen writes...
'I would like to pass on my appreciation to the hard working organisers and volunteers of the Newcastle Buddy Walk. The chosen location for the walk, along the foreshore of Lake Macquarie from Warners Bay to Spears Point, was delightful and easy on the legs for both young and old. The children had a lot of fun with the entertainment provided and we all enjoyed the sausage sizzle, so thank you very much for a most enjoyable day and we look forward to doing it again next year.'
For more Buddy Walk photos and reports, go to our blog, Keeping Up With Down Syndrome NSW
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Professor of Intellectual Disabilty Mental Health appointed to University of NSW -
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