Major Turning Point
We don’t have to look far to see great work being done to shift our world in the right direction.
There are people making waves everywhere. Waves that uproot the old broken ways and breathe new better ways into being.
Walk down Slingsby Place in Covent Garden, central London and there you have activism in action.
Bianca Tavella is the founder and CEO of Fair Shot, a registered charity & unique social enterprise cafe which is her response to the unbearably high unemployment rate amongst adults with learning disabilities - at a staggering 95%.
Via a year-long training programme & follow on employment programme young adults with learning disabilities have a secure pathway into paid sustainable employment.
The impact Fair Shot is having on people is truly immeasurable.
They have had trainees that have started speaking, that have smiled for the first time, that have left their house for the first time since the pandemic started, trainees that have made friends for the first time, gotten their first ever paycheck, worked as part of a team and felt useful for the very first time in their lives.
There is no way to describe the impact other than saying that they are giving their trainees a chance to have everything that they deserve - the basic right to aspire to a career.
What that does to your mental health is limitless.
Fair shot cafe
PEOPLE CARE, PLANET CARE, FAIR SHARE
Bianca is helping to create a society where adults with learning disabilities have an equal and fair chance.
When you enter this café, order your lunch and a cup of coffee, sit down and enjoy your time in the space, you are, for this short time, experiencing what it is to live in a world where everyone has a fair chance, and where it feels completely normal.
When you step back outside again, you take something of that with you.
A wider worldview.
Acknowledging that our differences make for a richer living system for us all to thrive in.
In nature when a field meets a woodland, you have the diversity of the field and the diversity of the woodland mixing and making for biodiversity.
The more biodiversity there is, the healthier the planet.
As people we are part of that.
No one better or worse, but each bringing our unique qualities into the mix.
Thanks Bianca for showing us that a regenerative world, with equity for all, is a better place to live.
You can find out more about Bianca’s work on https://www.fairshot.co.uk/ and follow her on Linkedin @biancatavella
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