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– Lawyer ready to help tackle situation
While there is always need for financial and other support to help improve its operations, the Guyana Society for the Blind is faced with a dilemma which members say is hurting its operations, considerably.
Attorney at Law, Leslie Sobers (second from left), interacts with members of the Blind Society.
This dilemma translates to the access way of the 44 High Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown facility being garbage-strewn on a daily basis. Reports are that the unsightly garbage pile-up is the handiwork of “junkies” who are reportedly paid by business owners to dump the garbage there.
The access to the Society is situated a corner south of the Carnegie School of Home Economics on High Street, Georgetown.
The situation has been deemed a “major problem” by President of the Society, Mr. Cecil Morris, who yesterday lamented that it has been allowed to persist for far too long.
According to another member of the Society, Ganesh Singh, the garbage situation is compounded by the vagrants that are often seen in the area. “Not only is it an eye sore, but I think it is very dangerous and we are calling on the relevant authorities to do something about it,” said Singh. He spoke of the need for the situation to be addressed urgently complete with the outfitting of street lights and the implementing of measures to ensure that a clean state is
A garbage pile is seen at the entrance of the access to the Blind Society.
maintained.
He pointed out that even if the environment is cleaned by the Society the following day it is returned to an unsightly condition. “Every day we have about 20 to 30 people coming here to us and it is not becoming of an organisation. We really need assistance; whether it is from the City Council, whether it is from the Clean Up Campaign Committee, the Police, the Home Affairs Ministry…whoever can help, in whatever way, we need it as a matter of urgency,” added Singh.
Also concerned about the state of affairs is Attorney-at-Law, Leslie Sobers, who yesterday described the strewn garbage he saw as “deplorable.” Sobers said that he heard about the situation and wanted to see it for himself.
“It seems to me that people are purposely dumping garbage along here…This place is really unhealthy,” said Sobers. He recounted an encounter with a “junkie” as he headed to the Blind Society yesterday. That very junkie, he said, was seen lighting up his “drugs.”
“I chased him. I don’t think that he would challenge me as he would challenge one of these visually impaired persons…He wouldn’t dare risk it,” said Sobers.
The lawyer’s plan yesterday was to take photographs of the unsightly situation and according to him, “I am going to use the social media and see if I can stir up interest and concern, and let people understand what is going on here.”
Sobers said that he embraces the notion that a society is judged by the way it treats the sick and less fortunate. He noted that if efforts are going to be made to ensure a better life for all Guyanese, “we have to also ensure that these persons here are not at the mercies of vagrants and criminals because they meet them and rob them of money and their valuables…”
His intent is to ease the discomfort that the visually impaired have been forced to face overtime on their way to the Society. “This place is so tucked away behind this white elephant,” said Sobers who was at the time alluding to the still under construction building that formerly held the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation.
“People don’t even know that these kinds of things are happening at the back here,” said Sobers who is hopeful that the situation will be swiftly addressed.
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