All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 January Inspirational South West sisters blazing a trail in learning and life Inspirational South West sisters blazing a trail in learning and life 17/01/2022 | 3 MINS When Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics penned the song ΓÇÿSisters Are DoinΓÇÖ It For ThemselvesΓÇÖ, they could have had Mt BarkerΓÇÖs Eleanor and Kirsten Beidatsch in mind. Born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) which causes progressive muscular weakness, Eleanor, 28, has trouble breathing and can only move a few fingers and her head from side to side. Having dreamt her whole life of being a palaeontologist, the wheelchair using student overcame all the odds to graduate from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Albany campus with a Bachelor of Science in December and has already signed up for an Honours degree, studying palaeontology. Graduating by her side with a Bachelor of Arts degree was older sister Kirsten, whoΓÇÖs not only EleanorΓÇÖs best friend but one of her primary carers, along with mum Karen. Image: Eleanor and Kirsten Beidatsch at their graduations wit
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 January Inspirational South West sisters blazing a trail in learning and life Inspirational South West sisters blazing a trail in learning and life 17/01/2022 | 3 MINS When Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics penned the song ΓÇÿSisters Are DoinΓÇÖ It For ThemselvesΓÇÖ, they could have had Mt BarkerΓÇÖs Eleanor and Kirsten Beidatsch in mind.
Born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) which causes progressive muscular weakness, Eleanor, 28, has trouble breathing and can only move a few fingers and her head from side to side.
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Having dreamt her whole life of being a palaeontologist, the wheelchair using student overcame all the odds to graduate from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Albany campus with a Bachelor of Science in December and has already signed up for an Honours degree, studying palaeontology.
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Graduating by her side with a Bachelor of Arts degree was older sister Kirsten, whoΓÇÖs not only EleanorΓÇÖs best friend but one of her primary carers, along with mum Karen.
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Image: Eleanor and Kirsten Beidatsch at their graduations wit
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