Disabled persons groups geared for sensitisation work

Shaunette Shipley of Linseed signing the contractual agreement in order to receive the donation.

Disabled peoples organisations from regions four, six, and ten, were yesterday presented with several pieces of equipment to aid their sensitisation work in their communities.

At a simple ceremony at the secretariat of the National Commission on Disability (NCD), a television set, a camcorder, a tripod, a flip chart stand, a digital recorder, a DVD player and 63 blank DVDs were handed over to three groups.

Those receiving the donations were the Linden Supporting the Effort and Empowerment of Persons with Disability (Linseed) and the Region Four and Region Six Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) groups. The aim of the donation to the selected groups, according to NCD Programme Manager Zoan Williams, is for the continuation of public sensitisation efforts in those communities. She said the donation was birthed