Our Resource Centre for the Blind did our second and final walkathon for the year, last Wednesday, May 25th. We would have hit the streets of our capital, St. Georges, just a week before, with two objectives: sensitizing the public to the fact that blind and visually impaired students are being educated in mainstream schools and the equipment they use is in short supply and they need braille writers! We began at Progress Park in Paradise, St. Andrews and walked through Grenville-town to reach Victoria Park.
This round we would have teamed up with schools around Grenville- St. Joseph's Convent (Saint Andrews), St. Andrew's Methodist, St. Andrew's School for Special Education, St. Andrew's Anglican Secondary School (SASS) and others. With the support of their sighted peers, they were able to help collect donations from passerbys and hold placards. Their energy was incredible despite the hot hot sun!
At Victoria Park we had a few speeches and refreshments for all the participants. Here is a good shot of our wonderful, RCB student participants (below)!
Here we are walking through Grenville-town. We had an incredible turn out!
Thanks to our peace corp vulanteer A.Gaalema for her contribution to this post.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
'Walk With Me' 2011 Walkathon
It's that time of year again. When staff and students of the Grenada Resource Centre for the Blind adorn our jerseys and take the streets by storm! Spreading blind and visual impaired education awareness, all over the country, to all of the masses.
This year we did so in St Georges on Wednesday 18th 2011
Last year we staged our walk in hopes of attaining enough money to buy a Braille Embosser so that textbooks could be provided to our students in Braille.
We did not raise enough but we WERE blessed enough to be seen by generous GRENLEC, willing to sponsor our embosser. Now the tool is primed and ready to copy textbooks into Braille so that our students can follow along with their sited peers. One battle one!
This year we face another challenge, though our embosser is bought our brailler are still not all functional. Our students use their personal brailler as textbooks and without them they have no way to independently right.
So this year we were out again, never failing to walk for the rights of the blind and visually impaired of Grenada. Making a bold and true statement, that blindness does not mean a life of dismal limitations in a dark world. That with education, blind and visually impaired students of Grenada can grow into capable able blind and visually impaired capable and functioning contributors of society
Below are pictures from the St George's 'Walk With Me' Walkathon:
Join us NEXT WEEK when we take our 'Walk With Me Walk,' to Grenville! On Wednesday 25th 2011!
This year we did so in St Georges on Wednesday 18th 2011
Last year we staged our walk in hopes of attaining enough money to buy a Braille Embosser so that textbooks could be provided to our students in Braille.
We did not raise enough but we WERE blessed enough to be seen by generous GRENLEC, willing to sponsor our embosser. Now the tool is primed and ready to copy textbooks into Braille so that our students can follow along with their sited peers. One battle one!
This year we face another challenge, though our embosser is bought our brailler are still not all functional. Our students use their personal brailler as textbooks and without them they have no way to independently right.
So this year we were out again, never failing to walk for the rights of the blind and visually impaired of Grenada. Making a bold and true statement, that blindness does not mean a life of dismal limitations in a dark world. That with education, blind and visually impaired students of Grenada can grow into capable able blind and visually impaired capable and functioning contributors of society
Below are pictures from the St George's 'Walk With Me' Walkathon:
Join us NEXT WEEK when we take our 'Walk With Me Walk,' to Grenville! On Wednesday 25th 2011!
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