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My friend’s sister Jemima has Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD) and lives in a Mencap care home in Hampshire. Jemima's family, The Brookes, are going to create a special E-Book for her that will include text, film, images and an interactive element. The E-book will contain information about how best to care for Jemima and will all importantly give Jemima an authentic voice, so all carers and professionals can understand her sense of humour, her likes & dislikes. This way, carers will know how she likes to live even if they are new to working in the home. This is crucial for her, as she is not able to tell people herself. It will be accessed on an ipad and be simple and easy to use and portable. It will be a live document that can change and grow with Jemima over time. The Brooke family have been working with staff at Jemima’s home and a creative design company to create the E:book.

By developing this practical initiative for Jemima, the Brooke family will make something that other families can benefit from. Jemima’s E:book is a pilot which will demonstrate to Mencap that it can be rolled out to all the people in Jemima’s home and hopefully nationally.

So in order to raise the money to make this happen. I’m going to be walking on hot coals. Please give what you can, and come along to the firewalking event if you can make it. On behalf of myself, Jemima, and the rest of The Brookes, THANK YOU.

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