{"id":84,"date":"2022-01-19T12:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T01:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/?p=84"},"modified":"2023-06-14T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T03:19:56","slug":"kenichi-gray-western-australia-coles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/2022\/01\/19\/kenichi-gray-western-australia-coles\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenichi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/01\/Kenichi-Gray-Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/01\/Kenichi-Gray-Facebook.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/01\/Kenichi-Gray-Facebook-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/01\/Kenichi-Gray-Facebook-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/01\/Kenichi-Gray-Facebook-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/01\/Kenichi-Gray-Facebook-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By<\/strong> <strong>Kenichi Gray, WA<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is Kenichi Gray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I work as a part-time employee at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coles.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coles<\/a> Maddington, WA. At Coles, I tidy up the shelves, collect boxes and put them in the big bin bag, and put those boxes in the machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also work as a casual employee at a Good Company Disability Services. Through GCDS, I sell cookies. I give stickers for kids, put stamps on the boxes, give cookie samples to people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love my job because I can help people who are in trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love my job because I can talk to people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am really great at being friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am really great at collecting empty boxes and putting them for machine at Coles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am really great at tidying up the shelves at Coles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People with Down syndrome are great workers because we work hard and are strong.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having a job makes me feel happy, nice and very proud of myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenichi Gray works in two jobs &#8211; one at Coles and the other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"76","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21,10,8,20,5,15,9,6,4,22,7],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employment","tag-coles","tag-disability","tag-down-syndrome","tag-dswa","tag-employment","tag-inclusion","tag-intellectual-disability","tag-job","tag-right-to-work","tag-western-australia","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}