Blind Society CSEC programme gets recognition

Sep 03, 2015 News

– as businesswoman honours students

A movement is currently unfolding that is geared towards having the rights of visually impaired and blind persons respected, particularly in the area of their academic development.
This notion was alluded to yesterday by Executive Member of the Guyana Society for the Blind, Ganesh Singh.
Singh, who is also the Coordinator of the Society’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination programme, said that currently six students who wrote CSEC are registered to attend the University of Guyana (UG). This feat in years gone by might have been unattainable.
Today its realization is deemed “a major boost for them (students), the Association and by extension, the disability community in Guyana,” said Singh.
With the recent registration of the six students it brings to eight the number of blind and visually impaired students eligible to access UG. “This is a novelty for Guyana and the campus,” asserted Singh yesterday.
Singh said that while “we have had one, and then another four or five years later, another” the current influx of students will in fact help to force a much needed transformation at the tertiary level institution.
The transformation to which Singh was making reference to was the putting in place of systems to ensure that needful measures are accessible on the UG campus for students who are blind or visually impaired.
Even as he reiterated that “this is a major boost for the disability movement,” Singh noted that in addition to being able to access UG in increased numbers, students of the Blind Society are also able to access the Cyril Potter of Education (CPCE).
The 2014 top CSEC performer of the Society, Rosemary Ramit, is currently a student of CPCE. She also offers her knowledge to students who attend classes at the Society.
Guillian Layne of the 2015 CSEC batch is set to attend CPCE too to complete training she had earlier started. “Because of Rosemary they (CPCE) have already started to put systems in place so Guillian will benefit from that so it shows that our programme is reaping major successes,” said Singh.
His disclosures were forthcoming at a simple ceremony yesterday at the High Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, headquarters of the Blind Society, to honour the students who participated in the 2015 CSEC examination.
Honouring the students was in fact an initiative of Ms Genevieve McDonald, proprietor of the recently opened Heaven’s Care Day Care facility located at 68 Sixth Street, Alberttown, Georgetown.
Ms McDonald has for many years been involved in the disability movement in Guyana owing to the fact that her father, Godfrey McDonald, is blind. She is currently a member of the board of the Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disability.
McDonald was enthused when she learnt of the performances of the students this year and wanted to do something that would help to motivate them to do even better in their future endeavours.
Top performing candidate, Alwyn Adams, who secured grade one passes in Principles of Business, Office Administration and Social Studies and grade two passes in English and Human and Social Biology, was presented with a trophy.
The other students – Teshaun Rodney, Adelphian Adams, Anthony Robinson, Desmond Fraser, Stacy Greaves, Leroy Phillips, Musa Haynes, Ceion Rollox and Guillian Layne – each received medals for their performances.
McDonald however did not overlook the role of the teachers who helped the students to realize their respective academic goals. The teachers, among them Ganesh Singh, Rosemary Ramit and Mayanna Francis, were presented with trophies yesterday too. A member of the Society’s CSEC coordinating committee, Ms Theresa Pemberton, was also the recipient of a token of appreciation.

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