This week's Good Sort is a woman providing Northland's intellectually disabled community with programmes that build confidence and foster skills transferable to the wider community and its workforce.
Pam Clarke created the Goodlife Charitable Trust, based in Kaitaia, which creates vocational opportunities for intellectually disabled adults.
It's mainly centred around gardening and art, and project members create products they can sell for their own profit.
"It's a handful, but it's the best job ever," she said.
Pam and her husband Doug struggled to find activities when their daughter Hayley left school.
"We realised that there were a lot of other people that were in our position and that if we did this it would make a big difference in our town."
Hayley died in 2010, and in 2015, Pam knew what she had to do.
"I said to Doug, 'I still feel like I need to do this', and he said 'let's do it, let's just do it'."
Find out more by watching the heartwarming video above.
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