Live Blog
This live blog is about celebrating the inspirational stories and achievements of individuals all over the world who have overcome their ‘different ability’, impairment, stunted growth or otherwise to prove misconceptions are wrong and equality and diversity is the way forward… please enjoy, share and comment thank you …
Radio Wimborne World DS Day
Erika talks to Graham Clarke about World Down Syndrome Day, Micaela and her progress and what shades of different is trying to achieve through their fundraising. To listen to this podcast please click the play button below:
Steve’s story
It was 2009, I had lived with severe clinical depression for 17 years yet still had built my dream business, had an amazing partner, and had recently bought a great home. What more could I want? Yet I was dying inside and finally I broke in the most spectacular...
Andy’s story
I’m Andy and in 2017 I was rushed to hospital as an emergency and diagnosed with a large Meningioma brain tumour. This was immediately surgically removed via a craniotomy at Southampton NHS hospital, and I was given the all-clear. However, in 2022 I was diagnosed with...
My Healing Journey by Kassi Ydris
My Father was an alcoholic. He died when I was 13 years old on Christmas Eve in Mexico. We came to America running away from him wanting a better life since he used to beat up my mom a lot. I grew up. Finished high school. Had a son in High school that I still haven’t...
Hope FM WDSD interview – March 2023
To listen to this podcast please click the play button below: Ryan Boydon interviews Erika Petrie about WDSD & awareness raising including Micaela and her resilience, the live blog and topics raised within it. Joanna Criscenti is patched in to talk about her...
Face to face with Rashi – WDSD 21st March 2023
Rashi Kumar, journalist and broadcaster from Face to Face with Rashi interviews Erika Petrie to celebrate WDSD and the achievements of individuals with Down Syndrome all over the world. Her daughter Micaela who has Down Syndrome is also mentioned and features in the...
Donate Now!
As of 31st March 2022, Shades of Different is now officially registered as a charity incorporated organisation (charity no: 1198481). We aim to raise funds to provide vital therapies and promote better inclusion for differently able children, initially in Dorset and hopefully spreading to other parts of the UK in the future. Please donate as little or as much as you can, knowing that this will really make a difference to these children who really deserve it and can help to make our world a better place.
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