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John Gallaghan (Townsville)

Here you can listen to the story of John Gallaghan who is an Indigenous Queenslander with a disability.

Introduction:

Strong and Proud - promoting awareness of the experience of Indigenous people with a disability, thanks to the support of Disability Services Queensland.

Narrator:

If you're a real estate agent, landscaper or builder in Townsville, then you may have met John Gallaghan at Endeavour Business Service Townsville. John's a Murri man with an intellectual disability, one of a group of people who work at Endeavour each day making and painting wooden stakes and pegs, shredding documents, sorting rags and refurbishing Qantas headsets.

John Gallaghan:

"I'm pointing all them sticks, I'm doing. I got to do them all. The guys over in the painting area, they're painting them – white paint. They paint with white paint 'cause they're painting all the white sticks. I use the pop-up sort and when I use... and that in the back and see the one I use and that's the one I use, it's got sharp blades and that, that's pointing both sides, and I'm stacking them there. "

Narrator:

John enjoys the work he does each day, as well as his interaction with the other workers.

John Gallaghan:

"Oh, everything's good for me working here, yeah. The people are all right – the people are all right. Good mates here at work, good place to work, you see, good place to work."

Narrator:

Endeavour operates a number of business services throughout Queensland like the one John works in - providing employment and training opportunities for people with intellectual disability. These business services are run as commercial enterprises, and provide on the job and competency-based training. Endeavour employees work to produce a wide variety of products and services for national and international markets. Open employment services are also offered at Endeavour to assist people with intellectual disability to find work in the general workforce. To learn more about employment opportunities available to people with intellectual disability, contact Endeavour on (07) 3874 1000.