Nicole Ashby
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Nicole is married with three young children and lives in Perth, Western Australia. Her partner Joe has been employed in the Offshore Oil Industry since 2008.
It has been during this time that Nicole has had to learn to adapt to the challenges of being a sole parent whilst Joe is away at work. For six months of the year, while Joe works away on a roster of 4 weeks and 4 weeks off, Nicole juggles all of the demanding and rewarding responsibilities of parenting.
On meeting and talking with other FIFO families in Perth, Nicole realised that there was a real need in the community to establish some form of social network and support. A platform where other FIFO parents and partners could come together and share their experiences of FIFO life, the isolation they feel and how they manage to get through their daily routines on their own and how the FIFO parent fits in to the family when they return home from work.
Nicole had a vision of being able to link families who live in close proximity to each other. This is so they can help each other out with school runs, after school care, “swapping time”; one FIFO Family Mum could go and get the groceries without having to take the kids or do a million other things where taking the kids can be challenging! Hence FIFO Families was born and is now rapidly growing across the country.
Visit Nicole’s website FIFO Families to find out more.