Mayo social entrepreneur meets the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
Mayo-based social entrepreneur and DESTY founder Stephanie O’Malley was a guest at the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin, yesterday when she was invited to meet with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as part of their three-day visit to Ireland.
Stephanie had the opportunity to speak with both the Duke and the Duchess on an individual basis and they were very happy to take home a DESTY Teddy and set of DESTY Feeling Cards to their children.
The Duchess mentioned that naming feelings is something she has been working on lately with her son George and both the Duke and Duchess agreed that this work was very much aligned with the Duchesses work and focus on developing the early years sector which is something Stephanie is also very passionate about.
This won’t be the first time Stephanie will be mixing it up with the royals as she previously met with Meghan Markle at the British Ambassador’s residence in July 2018.
The DESTY founder is keen to promote her educational product in the UK where DESTY has been hugely successful in helping empower parents, carers and educators to support children to develop emotional resilience with their award-winning online DESTY Island Emotional Resilience Programme.
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Education DESTY is carrying out important work in empowering some of the most vulnerable children in the UK.
They are working with 15 local authorities there and have trained over 500 DESTY Mentors to work with children presenting with a wide range of social and emotional needs with a particular focus on children in care.
Knowsley, a borough of Merseyside, has consistently been identified as England's second most deprived area but where the roll-out of DESTY has been an overwhelming success.
DESTY launched an initiative with the local authority which has committed to ensuring that every school in their area has a DESTY Mentor in place so they can support and empower some of their most vulnerable children in their care to grow their emotional resilience.
The company has also started working with a wonderful team from the Sligo Schools Completion Programme who are currently undergoing training to become Certified DESTY Mentors so they can deliver the DESTY Island Emotional Resilience Programme to schools in their area.