When I was a kid, I was pretty good at translating what Ali was saying to other people. And I also loved helping to tutor her at home after school.


We lived on a farm where our parents taught us to make absolutely everything for ourselves. We took pride in wearing, eating, driving and playing with everything that was home-produced.


But when I grew up I struggled for years to grasp a sense of how to apply my creativity.


I had been recommended to follow a professional course of study based on my academic skills (for me, maths, art, physics), because that's what kids like me did, right?


I followed that path and became a dedicated - albeit frustrated - architecture academic, guiding students who were equally adrift for lack of empowerment to shape and innovate their future for the better.


Over the years it became clear to me that we'd all been worn down to an 'ideal mould' by years in the competitive academics system.


In that worldview, how we collaborate towards the greater good is far less important than how well we compete.


Breaks of light came when I travelled the world and created exciting collaborative workshops with others who were different to me.


Eventually, my stars began to align when I co-founded an innovation lab at the university where I worked, and as a collective we thrived on the diversity of interests, cultures and abilities that it attracted.


We discovered that solving problems with creativity and diversity is the key to innovation.


In fact, Wonderchums is like an innovation lab for kids; globally distributed and focused on disability inclusion.


We welcome you to the very beginning of this journey with us!


We know so little, and can only dream so much...


But with you, we might just build this extraordinary community for all of our kids, and for our greater vision of how their future might evolve.