Successful Invercargill Disability Forum
By: Melissa Corbin
Disabled United Invercargill: 11:15 am, Wednesday, 18 September 2024
On Saturday, 14th September, the Invercargill branch of Disable United hosted a Disability Forum with Labour members Ingrid Leary, the Hon. Priyanca Radhakrishnan and Hon. Carmen Sepuloni attending.
Unfortunately, we didn't get many people attending, but this time, we had different people in our audience, with 36 people in attendance.
Everything went fairly smoothly, except we had a few issues getting the interpreter online for our deaf community.
Labour talked about seeing us and the hard work we are doing here in Invercargill and acknowledging our committee's role in setting up DUNZ. The speakers also talked about the importance of getting everyone's stories to them so that they can challenge the Government with real, day-to-day stories of how much we are all struggling with these changes to our funding.
We also talked about the importance of connecting with our community, as there still seem to be many members of the general public who don't know how these funding changes are affecting them.
Overall, the event went well, with lots of robust discussion around our next steps, which need to include getting information out to the general public as well as our disabled community and gathering stories to send to Labour so they can speak for us in Parliament.
We will discuss our next steps at our next committee meeting later this week.
Thanks once again to my wonderful committee for getting the work done so we could run this event.
Melissa Corbin
Disabled United Invercargill Outreach Coordinator
Last Updated 18/09/2024
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