What we do…
DYMA NI provides a warm friendly and inclusive space for young adults with disabilities particularly those who have completed full time education. The group meets twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am-2.30pm.
Activities follow the interests of the group members and are inclusive and adapted to meet individual needs and abilities. Activities have included film making, hiking, swimming, basketball, karaoke, live music making, environmental work, cookery, growing and selling plants, maintaining an allotment, drama, Tai Chi and dance, poetry writing and recitation and much more.
The RAY Wildlife Garden and greenhouse is maintained by DYMA NI members who sell excess produce, and thanks to a beneficial connection with the National Trust at Llanerchaeron, the group have been involved in many activities including making Scarecrows for a Scarecrow Festival, and have taken over one of 10 community allotments to grow food to cook at RAY.
The benefits
- Friendships and social connections
- Life and social skills.
- Building confidence and independence.
- Life-long learning.
- Self-expression
Quotes…
If Dyma Ni was on 5 days a week, he would come 5 days a week he would be living his best life” (Parent)
Dyma Ni makes me happy, and I have fun. (DYMA NI member)
From having no interest in cooking, she now comes home and prepares a family mean from scratch, skills she’s learned at DYMA NI. (Parent)I don’t know what we would do without the 2 days a week, before DYMA NI he saw no reason to get out of bed, he rarely left the house. Now he has a big group of friends, they meet up independent of the weekly sessions, and it not exaggerating to say it has changed not just his life, but mine as well. We are all so much happier.(Parent)
