Achilles Tauranga

If anyone wants to do Wellington please let me know asap

It is our 300th event this weekend and we would love to have 300 walkers and runners join us. Please come along and bring a friend or a family member, or your dog. Just be there 🏃🏃🏼‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Good Work Tamahau!

Gordon Carmichael Reserve parkrun

Achilles International New Zealand

Stephen Rorison 🤩

In celebration of Helen Keller Day and Deafblind Awareness Week, we bring you Stephen's inspiring story. Stephen was born profoundly deaf and later diagnosed with Usher syndrome, a condition that affects both hearing and sight. Despite these challenges, Stephen's resilience, determination, and optimism have been unstoppable.

From a young age, Stephen faced the gradual loss of his side vision. By age 40, his worsening vision forced him to give up his driver's licence. Now in his 50s, he navigates life with vision limited to two cloudy tunnels. Yet, his outlook remains clear and bright, a testament to his unbreakable spirit.

Visit our website for Stephen's full story. https://blindlowvision.org.nz/story/stephens-story-unstoppable-active-spirit/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Helen+Keller+Day

Image description: From left to right, Jono (volunteer), Stephen, and Michelle (Community and Volunteer Coordinator) smile brightly with their thumbs up as they stand in front of a tandem bike on the sidewalk/ shop front.

Good Work Helen!

🔦Spotlight on BSNZ's General Manager Helen Johnson.

For the past 120 days , without fail, Blind Sport NZ General Manager, Helen has been clocking up a minimum of 10,000 steps a day. Some days she has smashed the daily step goal and other days it has been a stretch.

Helen started with a goal of 100 consecutive days doing 10,000 steps each day to improve her fitness. The maths on that is at least 1,000,000 steps. She didn’t tell anyone about her goal at first while she got her own head around it and settled into a routine pounding the pavement. As the days passed and she experienced the inherent physical and mental benefit of moving she shared it with others. These are the people she refers to now as her ‘Cheerleaders’. She is extremely grateful to have had them ‘every step of the way’ so to speak.

Helen wanted to share her achievement to inspire others who might be thinking of setting a sport goal and may be looking for that gentle nudge to do it. For Helen, it started with the first step…and helped to have good footwear, a device to track the steps, some courage and determination. In her mind from time to time was a quote about setting goals… 'Set high goals, even if they sound crazy – at least if you don’t reach them, you will still have achieved something great”.

Kia Ora
We are looking for a new National Administration Manager.
This is a critical part time work from home role , managing the administration for our disability-focused sports organisation. (approx 80 hours per month)
We are all about getting people of all abilities moving forward for life,
Visit our website www.achillesnewzealand.org for more info on us.
(we are working hard behind the scenes to launch a new website)
message us for more info
Blind Sport New Zealand
Special Olympics New Zealand
Paralympics New Zealand
Sport New Zealand

https://www.seek.co.nz/job/76549165