Resource Centre for the Blind Grenada: '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: