Strong Voices

Renee Marriott, a 42-year-old woman often isolated from the community because of her disability, reduced her mother to tears when she took to the stage in Ngā Tāngata Manawa o te Tai-tonga Kapa Haka Festival in Christchurch.

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Every mother with a pre-teen or teenager needs a break. And it’s just as true for the kid, especially when mum is also their carer.

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The health of people with intellectual disabilities is being neglected by health authorities.

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Former IHC Chair Neil Taylor died on 29 August ending his long commitment to this organisation and to the South Taranaki community he loved.

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IHC is looking at the future role of its members as we adapt to changes in society and the different pressures on families.

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ANZ is making its banking services accessible to more customers by creating easy-to-read documents. Earlier this year the bank sent a team to an IHC Easy Read training session run in Wellington by the Council for Intellectual Disability in New South Wales.

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Christchurch woman Linda Hider turned 70 in June, and she hopes to live for much longer. Linda is raising two of her grandchildren – her son’s 12-year-old boy and 11-year-old daughter – and wants to be there for as long as they need her.

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Indika Mendis has won the IHC Matariki Drawing Competition with a pastel drawing in which creatures emerge in an explosion of colour.

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Dr Terry Caseley devoted his career to making sure people with intellectual disabilities were given the chance to live their best lives. The former President of IHC and influential Christchurch paediatrician died in Christchurch on 18 May 2023, at the age of 89.

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Four exceptional works by three prize-winning IHC Art Awards artists have been selected to showcase a limited edition run of AF Drinks’ 31-pack of non-alcoholic cocktails.

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