Blog: Featured contributor: Carmel Rosella
At Pool, we love people sharing their own stories. We've especially enjoyed hearing, watching and reading the My Street contributions come in. But it's not everyday we're sent a story like I learnt to read when I was 25 years old by Carmel Rosella.
Back in April, Radio National's Radio Eye program ran a story called A Place To Belong. It featured Carmel.
"Abused as a child, and beset by learning difficulties, for most of her life Carmel couldn't read or write. By the time she was a teenager she had a criminal record, a drug problem, and was living on the streets and in psychiatric hospitals. Today she coordinates a reading and writing group and is an important member of her local community. Carmel's story charts her difficult but ultimately triumphant journey with honesty and insight."
Carmel has continued to share her story in Pool.
What was it like sharing her story on national radio? She writes:
"Doing my story with [producer] Hamish sometimes it was hard talking about things. On the other hand tell Hamish it was a bit of a heal progist. Going to Sydney to see how it was going to bit put on air it was letting me know it was going to air. I never be it a radio station before it was exiting and something new for me".
Read Hamish Sewell's piece on producing this story.
See A Place to Belong continue in Pool.
The image of the footprints is from Carmel's profile here.
