The Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities will host a week of activities to mark National Disability Week starting with an awareness march and rally tomorrow.
In a press release the group said this year’s activities will be hosted under the theme ‘Dignity and Justice for all of us’. Participants will assemble at the offices of the National Commission on Disability at 7 am where a member of the Support Group for Deaf Persons will say a prayer in sign language. The group will then march west along Croal Street, south along Austin Place, east into Hadfield Street, south into Lime Street, east into D’Urban Street and south into Mandela Avenue to assemble at the National Gymnasium. The Wismar Baptist Church will hold a rally on the same day at Linden.

The roster for the week of activities includes the distribution of disability awareness materials; interviews with various media houses and the airing of movies featuring persons with disabilities on Monday. On Tuesday and Wednesday awareness literature will be distributed to schools and other places in Georgetown. In Essequibo workshops will be held and media activities will be hosted in New Amsterdam by the NA Special School. According to the release the UN Volunteers/Support Group for Deaf Persons will also host workshops at the YMCA in Georgetown with police, probation officers and social workers.

On Thursday a rap session with the ministers of Foreign Affairs, Home Affairs and Legal Affairs and the commissioner of police will be held. On Friday a symposium with presentations by school children will be held at the National Gymnasium. A concert will be held at the Gymnasium on Saturday to close the observances.