The Sport Hawke's Bay team ready to deliver activity packs. Photo / Supplied
Teamwork meant the disability services sector managed to keep things ticking along during the Covid-19 lockdown.
By working in a partnership, Hawke's Bay disability service organisations delivered more than 50 resource and activity packs each week to people unable to attend vocational day programmes.
Enliven Disability Service Manager Andrew Wordsworth
said not being able to provide face-to-face services was a challenge for disability workers, who normally rely on seeing their clients in person.
"But we still wanted to provide vocational services and some form of activity for our people to help them make it through lockdown, to keep them engaged, keep them active, and give them things they enjoyed doing," Wordsworth said.
"We received funding from the Ministry of Social Development, so we bought art resources, developed numeracy, literacy and craft activities, and worked with Sport Hawke's Bay to develop exercises for people with disabilities who were stuck at home, to keep them active while they were in lockdown.
