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ENNIS based estate agency O’ Do- lan & Partners is lending its support to anew campaign for better services for children with Down’s syndrome. The firm, which has offices in Gal- way and Ennis, has joined the Mak- ing Galway Proud Initiative’s 2007 campaign for speech and occupa- tional therapy for Voices For Galway (Down Syndrome Galway Branch). O’Dolan & Partners will host a fund-
raising walk and swim called *Cario- sa’s Walk and Swim’, in an effort to raise awareness and much needed funds to help shorten the four and a half year waiting list for speech and occupational therapy in Galway. Cariosa Williams, who gives her name to this fundraising event, is a four month-old girl with Down’s Syndrome. O’Dolan & Partners in- spired by the little girl and her family are also using this walk to celebrate Cariosa. As Barry Kelly of O’ Dolan
& Partners explained “for the past four years O’ Dolan & Partners have watched the great work that Making Galway Proud has done for the local community. The concept for the in1- tiative is quite unique in that it con- centrates on low profile causes each year in Galway, and yet again they have chosen a cause that has other- wise been totally ignored. We are delighted to be able to do something for speech and occupational therapy in Galway.” Voices For Galway is
an inspirational group of parents who have come together to do some- thing themselves about the wait- ing list for speech and occupational therapy. The Making Galway Proud Initiative, now in its fourth year, is currently preparing for the Making Galway Proud Ball, which will take place on Saturday, October 6. To reg- ister for Cariosa’s Walk or for further information, contact O’Dolan and Partners in Ennis on 065 6864957 or Galway 091 865000.