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Rob is available in the Lower Mainland of BC. If your school is outside of this area, please contact IDEAS to discuss whether Rob can travel to your location! To book a speaker or discuss becoming a School Talks speaker, please contact Paul Head by phone at (604) 255 9606 or by email at paul.head [...]

About School Talks

If you are a teacher or principal in British Columbia, IDEAS offers school talks in the Lower Mainland. The School Talks program brings Robert Hill to your classroom or school to share his story, the challenges he has faced living with chronic intestinal illness, and how he has aspired to live a full life. The [...]

Carly Lindsay

Being sixteen years old, it is hard to imagine that Carly has had ‘Trouble’ since the age of nine. Who is Trouble? Trouble is her ileostomy, nicknamed by Carly and her ET nurse. Is it really trouble? No, it is not. It gave Carly her life back after a painful battle with Ulcerative Colitis. Having [...]

About Rob Hill

Diagnosed in 1994 with Crohn’s disease, Rob fought a hard battle but Rob says “when it came down to losing my colon or losing my life, it wasn’t a hard decision to make” Rob’s colon had to be removed a year and a half later. “Life with an ostomy was my second chance and I’m [...]

IDEAS Offers School Talks

If you are a teacher or principal in British Columbia, IDEAS offers school talks in the Lower Mainland. The School Talks program brings Robert Hill to your classroom or school to share his story, the challenges he has faced living with chronic intestinal illness, and how he has aspired to live a full life. The [...]

Tony Bell

Born having a flaw of his colon, Tony Bell received an ostomy right after entry into the world. A couple of years later on, the ostomy was reversed, but, after a period of being affected by incontinence, 9-year-old Tony got a permanent colostomy. Out of the blue, this non-active, withdrawn youngster who had been frightened [...]