'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!

Easter 2011 Kite Flying Event

On the 5th April 2011 The Resource Centre for the Blind executed our second Easter Get Together.

The air was brisk and clean, the sky was clear and the wide open pasture unlike last year, showed no sign of drought.

It is a priceless and rare occation to see so many of our students smiles all gathered in one place. Though some could not attend this time the few that were gathered abounded with joy as they helped make kites.

Soon, said kites were kissing clouds and unfortunately, loosing battles with distant powerlines (only two though, which had broken away from it's owner and were carried far by the wind)

While our students harbour little to no sight, this did not crinkle in the least the joy they felt when their kites lifted high on a promising breeze up into the sky.

Lunch was dilicous roti and home made fruit juice with the occiational sweet treat, all of which was sponcered by Resource Centre for the Blind staff

It was a wonderful and recreational way to end of the terms, communing with ourselves, our students and remembering the reason for the season. :)

Doe enjoy our slideshow of the event!

First Term draws to a close

Here at the Grenada Resource Centre for the blind we acknowledge that it is not only important to reward academic performance but to encourage good matured personal growth as well in our blind and or visually impaired students.

In keeping with this, this December we made it our duty to let our students know that we are looking and we are proud by staging and End of Term Get together where they would enjoy good food and awards for positive personality traits we have spotlighted in them as well as academic perseverance.

So without further delay, enjoy the pictures of the festivities held on December 9th, we did :)

Professional Development Day

Every October the Staff of most if not all schools of Grenada are grated a day specifically for professional development where we are directed by the Ministry of Education to use this day to educate ourselves as teachers in ways that will aid us in our continued endevour to inform the youth of Grenada in the area in which we are charged to do so.

This October there was a workshop organized for all Special Education schools, this includes RCB as well as School for the Deaf. There we all camne together, as educators educating educators in ways that would make inclusive education all the more effective for all those involved.

It was a day of learning and fun as we aspire to make sure the two go hand in hand as much as is possible.

RCB presented a short background of Braille (soon to come on this very website!) and a Braille exercise so that all present could have a practical experience at many of our students way of life

Here, take a look at how it turned out: