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Bob Guest (Canadian Farmers with Disabilities Registry Chair) Testifies Before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food on the Mental Health Challenges that Canadian Farmers, Ranchers and Producers Face.
National Disabled Farmers Entrepreneurship and Leadership Network
The Canadian Farmers with Disability Registry (CFWDR) is building a National Disabled Farmers Entrepreneurship and Leadership Network. The members of this private network will be disabled farmers due to injury or illness across Canada.
An injury or illness can suddenly place a farm family in an unknown situation. Local friends and family may not have the understanding or knowledge to help. This is a common situation for many farm families dealing with a disability. Suddenly, the disabled farmer and their family are isolated without the ability to rely on their existing community to provide answers. The network will be designed to allow these people the opportunity to find support from other disabled farmers across Canada. Disabled farmers would post questions to the network or search for existing answers. Other disabled farmers and industry experts can provide answers and assistance. This will greatly assist with bringing together disabled farmers.
The network will be a community to connect all disabled farmers across Canada. As a member of the network, the disabled farmer’s community grows. Instead of having nobody in their local community to help them with their situation, they have hundreds of people that can completely understand their situation. Someone from BC can have the opportunity to reach out for help and the assistance could come from someone in Newfoundland or vice versa. Disabled farmers can help other disabled farmers and provide information. This information and experience would be unique to only someone that has experienced the challenges created by a disability and not available anywhere else.
Become a member!
There two ways to join CFWDR. If you are a farmer, and you or one of your immediate family members has a disability or illness you can register as a “Member”
If you are not a farmer but have a personal or professional interest in farm safety and supporting farmers living with disabilities or illness, then you can register as an “Associate Member”.
To register as a member please click the button below and then fill out the registration information on our Community Site.
All information is internal and will be kept confidential.
