Eighteen young men and women with intellectual disabilities grasped every ounce of courage they had to enter the Rotary Best Speaker Awards, staged by Plimmerton Rotary. The event was sponsored by Tommy’s Real Estate.
 
 
If you go to the Plimmerton Rotary site http://plimmertonrotary.org.nz/Blogs/Be+very%2C+very+touched), you will find a six- minute video extract which will give you a taste of the pride, astonishment, humility and amazement we all experienced as we laughed at their creativity and cried as we got a taste of the mountains they all have to climb.