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Angela Braido only tried basketball for the first time four years ago. With the help of her NDIS funding, she’s now a gold medallist, having triumphed as part of the Australian women’s team competing at last year’s Special Olympics.

Since joining the NDIS in 2016, Stefan has been setting and achieving goals, including training for the Australian Para Clay Target team and wakeboarding at the 2019 Mighty River Run.

Persistence was the key to NDIS participant Andrew Ned working in his Northern Queensland outback community, driving My Pathway and NDIS participants to and from their appointments. Leila Siufanua, Andrew’s NDIS Local Area Coordinator, said the 21-year-old Doomadgee local, who has an intellectual disability and a hearing impairment, now has paid employment, driving the My Pathways bus 10 hours a week and he just loves it. “I enjoy picking up people, dropping them off home, taking them wherever they want to go – I’m 100 per cent proud of myself,” he said. Leila said Andrew showed up every day at...