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Belinda (Bel) Cini is in her second season, employed as a ‘water girl’ for the Geelong Football Club’s women’s team and the one-eyed Cats supporter can’t believe she scored her ‘dream job’. The 39-year-old NDIS participant from Torquay who has an intellectual disability said she couldn’t be happier adding it was her long-time friend Sam Moorfoot, the Geelong men’s team’s water boy who inspired her to give it a go. ‘I thought if Sam could do it for the boys, I could do it for the girls,’ Bel said proudly. Using her NDIS funding Bel engaged local disability provider Leisure...

In 1974 Kate Watkins got her first Seeing Eye dog, a moment she’ll never forget. She finished high school on the Friday and the following Monday, she was at Lady Nelson Seeing Eye Dogs being matched with Troika, a 2-year-old golden labrador. Since then Kate, who is legally blind, has had a further 7 Seeing Eye dogs – Abbey, Letice, Quarry, Qiana, Selwood, Clayton and now Kramer, her first fully funded Seeing Eye dog through the NDIS. ‘I’ve had a really good experience with the NDIS,’ Kate said. ‘The funding assists to maintain Kramer’s high level working standards and his...