WORLD DOWN SYNDROME DAY WALK 2021

The Northland Community came together to celebrate WDSD on Saturday 20th March. The sun was shinning with no COVID or tsunamis in sight. Families, friends, and volunteers gathered from far and wide to do our “Lots of Rocks” Hatea Loop Walk. A wonderful crowd of 250 came along to support our walk, people dressed in our Northland Support Group colours (purple and orange) to mark the occasion. There were happy faces, music, hotdogs (RRT), coffee cart guys, plants, free giveaways and prizes for best dressed. Even dogs came dressed in purple and orange. We had painted rocks for the children to place around the Loop Walk as you can see one even made it to a hole in a tree. The Loop Walk takes approximately an hour to walk. It's 4.2kms long and one of our young adults with Down syndrome, Charles, said we should call it "lots of stops."