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Adherence to GPOC’s wheelchair sign heartening

Mar 02, 2012 News

 

 

 

The response from motorists on the recent installation of a Wheelchair sign at the entrance the Guyana Post Office Corporation has been tremendous.
This was according to Simone Poole, from the National Commission on Disabilities (NCD), who told Kaieteur News that the Commission is pleased with the fact that motorists did not violate the (Persons With Disabilities) PWD Act 2010, by parking their motor vehicles at the building’s entrance, hindering those with disabilities from entering the GPOC.
However, the NCD is still hoping to have other companies on board with its initiative to make the lives of differently-abled persons less stressful.
In addition to wheelchair signs, the NCD is hoping to have rails and ramps installed at the entrance of almost every public building in Guyana. This is being emphasized through a countrywide sensitizing programme by the Commission.
The plight of Guyana’s disabled was amplified in a recent interview by this newspaper with Barbadian advocate for the disabled, Peter Serieux.
Serieux had expressed dissatisfaction with how persons with disabilities are being facilitated in Guyana.
Among some of the worrying aspects he pointed to, were the uncomfortable entrances to almost every business place he had visited in Georgetown.
“I didn’t come to investigate or so, but I could not help walking through the city and feeling the ups and downs and the holes and so, and I wonder to myself how can a disabled person survive or maneuver on your road… even the people on the streets, like they don’t seem to recognize blind people to give them room to pass,” Serieux lamented.
The NCD is a semi-governmental organization that is constituted by the PWD Act 2010. Its main objectives are promoting and fulfilling the rights of persons with disabilities and to work with various agencies to institute policies and programs that include persons with disabilities.

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