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IHC friendship programme

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IHC friendship programme

In 2007 IHC ran a friendship programme where a volunteer spent time with an IHC client, doing things like talking, singing and going on trips together. Here Tara Ross and Rosa Hipkins, both aged 21, share a joke during an outing to a garden.

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Martin Sullivan, Disability and disability organisations – Organisations for people with disabilities, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/29178/ihc-friendship-programme (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Martin Sullivan, published 30 March 2011.