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Fundraiser held for differently abled persons

Oct 26, 2009 News

The Diamond Community Center Ground yesterday played host to the first fund raising effort held by the Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons Living with Disabilities.

The Council has been in existence for little over a year, and has some 26 member organisations under its wings. Head of the Council, Leon Walcott, told Kaieteur News that the fund raiser was in direct support of the approaching National Disability Week, which will run from November 29th to December 5th.

Monies collected at the event will be used to fund the various activities planned for the National Disability Week.

Walcott noted that the event is an opportunity for persons living with disabilities to be able to interact with each other.

This year’s disability week theme focuses on educating the young public of differently abled persons.

This he said is in accordance with the second Millennium Development Goals, to achieve universal primary education.

One of the activities featured at the fundraiser was a blind persons cricket match.

The National Blind Cricket Team was split in half, to allow for a 15-over seven-a-side match.

Walcott, who has been volunteering for the past eight years under two different capacities to aid the differently abled community, said that one of the greatest challenges facing the community is the absence of “disabled legislation.”

He did however make note of the promise made by the government to have a corresponding bill tabled at the current National Assembly sitting.

“One impact of this exercise is to demonstrate to the people on the East Bank (of Demerara) how people with disabilities can achieve their goals and ambitions”

Present at the fundraising to lend assistance were members of the Volunteer Services Organisation (VSO), and members of the Council.

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