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#IDPWD2020 – 10 years of Blossom Ireland in pictures

Posted on 03/12/202014/12/2020 by Clemence Jamet

03
Dec

What better day to look back on 10 years of Blossom Ireland than International Day of People with Disabilities! #IDPWD

Here is our first summer camp as Blossom Ireland! Auveen Bell and Orla Crowe co-founders of Blossom Ireland are holding the ribbon for Brendan O’Connor to cut and officially open our first summer camp!

Conor and Eoin enjoying their time in one of Blossom’s camps! Conor is now a peer mentor with Blossom!

A picture from one of our Halloween camps! Can you spot some familiar faces?

A picture from one of our annual Blossom dips with Raheeny GAA and Brian Fenton, a very proud supporter of Blossom Ireland

Blossom giving yoga classes at the 2018 Bloom festival where we’ve volunteered ever since!

Rory, Ailbhe, Alex and Haile at one of our workplace tours in the National Gallery of Ireland, the beginning of a long-term partnership with the gallery!

Auveen, the CEO of Blossom Ireland, at the Ireland Funds’ dinner in Boston where she was invited to speak about Blossom Ireland!

Alex and Howard on their graduation from Blossom Gateway in June 2019. The pair not only gained independence but also formed a bond like no other after meeting through Blossom! They are now both Peer Mentors in our programmes, working at Blossom every Saturdays.

Here is our fantastic team of facilitators and peer mentors in 2019 that work together to make Blossom happen every Saturday.

Since 2019, we stopped offering our camps and started our Blossom Personal Empowerment Programme®, which offers skills based training designed to prepare young people with an intellectual disability (ID) for life as an adult! Here you can see Orla and Stephen learning how to take the bus independently during one of Blossom Explore sessions.

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