Category: Blog
A day in the worklife of a Community Connector during a Pandemic
A day in the worklife of a Community Connector during a Pandemic I’m waiting for the tram in the surprising September sunshine. The black facemask Breakthrough has supplied is warm. I am travelling to meet a Connectee, who has just gone back to school. I’ve tried to speak to him before on WhatsApp but he [Continue reading…]
Breaking Through During an Outbreak
Breaking Through During an Outbreak Same storm The current time feels unpredictable, overwhelming, uncertain and chaotic as we are thrown into to a “new normal”, changing how we live, work and play, day by day. Some of us now feel lonely, confused, anxious, bored, frustrated and helpless…. sharing a desire for choice and control, belonging and [Continue reading…]
My Personal Experience of Lockdown
My Personal Experience of Lockdown First of all let me say that this blog is based on my own personal experience and that won’t be the same as every other disabled person’s experience, just as a non-disabled person’s experience is not the same as another’s. So of course going to talk about lockdown, because that [Continue reading…]
“Vulnerable People”
“Vulnerable People” As a disabled person, I was disappointed to miss the London School of Economics (LSE) online event “Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis for Disability Policy”. Streamed on Facebook, and starring an impressive list of speakers (Liz Sayce, Baroness Jane Campbell Clenton Farquharson and Neil Crowther), but was able to watch it as a BSL [Continue reading…]