There are many ways to find your community. Sometimes, you find community through shared interest or proximity, like school or your neighbourhood gym. Other communities are carefully and thoughtfully put together by connecting passionate people.

In this episode, Kelly MacDonald highlights one of those passionate, expanding communities.

For the last 12 years, Connect4Life, has been offering training programs for persons with disabilities in Canada. The organization is now expanding its programming into South Africa. Sharing knowledge and experience with like-minded people.

Melanie Taddeo, President and CEO of Connect4Life, tells Kelly about the history of Connect4Life and its expansion into South Africa.

Mr. Tap is a disability advocate in South Africa, and runs Skills Village Radio, a station creating programming for and with persons with disabilities.

Kelly also speaks to Steven Christianson, a Connect4Life board member who was instrumental in the global expansion of the organization.

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We talk a lot about accessibility in public spaces, but some of the hardest conversations don’t happen there. They happen in private, with family and friends. And unfortunately, they happen in the spaces that we are supposed to feel the safest.

In this episode, Beth Deer along with her two guests, Disability Inclusion Expert Bean Gill and Registered Clinical Counsellor Dan Spring, unpack what happens when accessibility becomes negotiable with family and friends. Dan and Bean offer their perspectives on how quickly our family and friends’ boundaries can turn into something deeper and make us feel like we don’t belong.

About AMI

AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca.

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Nisreen Abdel-Majid dives into Lynn Jensen’s journey of losing her sight and finding her way back to the world through travel.

After sudden vision loss at 27, Lynn faced the emotional and practical realities of starting over, learning new ways to navigate, rebuilding confidence, and making the life-changing decision to work with a guide dog she never wanted.

Through conversations with Lynn and her rehabilitation specialist, Rochelle De Vries, we explore what sudden vision loss can feel like, the challenges of mobility training, and how instructors support people as they regain independence.

We also hear from Lynn’s twin sister, whose perspective offers an intimate look at their bond and what it meant to witness such a profound life shift up close.

This is a story about reclaiming a sense of adventure on your own terms.

About AMI

AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca.

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Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online:

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