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Passport Mentoring is a way for students with intellectual disabilities to connect with
professionals in the community that they could tap into after they finish high school.
Alex - he has a history of delving into different types of species of plants and growing them,
so it helped me focus my search for a mentor.
When Adrien and I met, we started talking and immediately I could see how passionate
he was, so I knew he would be the right choice.
Well Alex brought a textbook with him at our very first meeting, and it was actually a
textbook I had had in second year university - so I recognized the book.
I try to have a lesson to expand Alex's knowledge of horticultural science. And, just simple
- it might be one week on PH, or a different aspect of plant growth, propagation or pruning.
He definitely has a passion for plants, and he's a very observant person. He'll notice
things that most of us would not.
He's helped me explore some of the different fields that there are, and pushed me higher.
So, he's sort of been like a lever.
So I want to go into Niagara College. I want to go into their horticulture program.
It's been a great experience for me. It's worked out extremely well and I don't think
I'd be as far as I am now if I hadn't become a part of it.
This experience is almost life changing, because it's so powerful the effect that you could
have on a young individual.
You know, how to make a difference in someone's life that could set them off into a path that's
so enjoyable and so enriching.