'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!

Post Walkathon 2010

It's been quite a while since our last update. We expected things to get hectic but it seems, as usual, we surprised ourselves!

Our 'Walk With Me' Walk was a great success! We advertised on programs like 'GBN Mornings' on the GBN Network and 'Spice Mornings' on the GIS Network, to who we are very very thankful! Did you catch any of our Broadcasts?

On the day of the St. Georges Walkathon, we had the kind cooperation of EACH NEWS CHANNEL ON THE ISLAND! That's correct MTV, GBN and Community Channel News were all there to cover the event as the blind and visually impaired students of Grenada, their teachers and their many supporters walked or cheered them on towards success, better educational equipment and making the public aware.

It was a grand event and everyone present enjoyed it to the fullest extent.

The next week on Wednesday we attempted our Grenville Walkathon but with the start of the Rain Season here in Grenada it was impossible on that day and was thus postponed till Friday.

Friday came, the walk was much shorter than in St Georges as our accompanying police officer was very concerned about traffic but the purpose was still met. We raised awareness and let the people of Grenville know that they are not forgottten by us!

We had our 'Walk With Me' Walkathon both in St. Georges and St. Andrews this year. Both, though hectic, still a great success. We had a chance to see ourselves learn from our mistakes last year, serving to only improve our walk event, making it bigger and better.

We thank everyone who supported us in this venture for the year past and this year. Thank you to all those who walked with us, who donated to our cause, who purcased jerseys in show of support (Still on sale by the way call us at 4350828). Thank you to the news channels for your beautiful, on time coverage, to the business places like Glengelg for there much needed and generious donation of water, to the wonderful policeman who lead us through St. Georges, who was patient and helpful, the the police women Net Ball Team who helped us as if championing their very own cause, to the Jersey and Banner printers for making sure that we looked ever so crisp when the day came and to each and every very last person who dipped into their pockets and gave from their hearts, from one cent to 50 dollars.

WE ARE SO THANKFUL!!!

We know that our students are too, they enjoy these events more than you can imagine. An event for them to shine, when they are not singled out but fit right in. Walking alongside everyone else, fighting for the same cause, the same goal, completely capable.

We cant thank you enough

Pictures soon to come!!! :D

Walkathon Wrap Up

a little last fund raiser wrap up!

In May 2009 the month designated as 'Blind Awareness Month' in Grenada, the RCB planned and staged a 'Blind Awareness Walk' to keep the population of Grenada reminded that the blind and visually impaired have hopes dreams and aspirations of equal importance as those of their sighted peers.

The walk was carried out successfully, with lots of promotional appearances on a few of Grenada's television station, radio announcements and t-shirts sporting the braille alphabet on the back (raised so that our blind and visually impaired students could read our motto as well ofcourse, we never forget 'Education for All' here at RCB) and showing of our RCB logo at the front.

All proceeds raised go toward the purchase of a Braille Embosser to mass produce copies of school textbooks for our blind and visually impaired students

Let me take this moment to say thank you to all our sponsors such as FedEx, participating schools, Westerhall Secondary School Drum Corp for providing the beat for us to march to, all the people that purchased and supported through the wearing of our t-shirts :)

without all of you none of this could have been possible, again THANK YOU!

and now for the fun part? Pictures!!

Article by: S. Hamlet