Mission Statement

1. To provide support to parents of children with Down Syndrome and other learning disabilities.

2. The creation and establishment of an early intervention program for our children.

3. To provide the best available education specific to the needs of our children, both at a junior and senior level.

4. Later, to provide a post-graduate training facility to prepare youths for possible inclusion into the work force, albeit within the realistic scope of things.

Up with Downs is currently upholding its responsibilities as noted above in points 1-3, and we are investigating ways on how to achieve and maintain point 4.  We have a dream that almost came to fruition in 2004: the acquisition of a suitable smallholding in the school’s name which would enable us to provide for the needs, both immediate and future, of all our children. 

This property would also enable us provide the necessary hostelling facilities to accommodate out-of-town folk, and it would have workshops to provide training in skills such as pottery, weaving, basic carpentry, even limited agricultural.  These life skills would not only make our kids useful to the community, but would greatly bolster their own self-esteem and dignity.  Although the property in question proved out of reach financially, the Dream lives on…