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| Mrs Claudette Walwyn Marketing Executive, Nevis, handing over a Dell laptop computer to Ms Jennifer Freeman President of the Nevis Blind Light and Visually Impaired Society while Mr Wrenford Dore and Mrs Laverne Caines look on. |
CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (April 4, 2006) -- President of the Nevis Blind Light and Visually Impaired Society Ms Jennifer Freeman called on members of the public to join and give continued support to the Society.
She was at the time giving thanks to Cable and Wireless for their gifts of Dell Laptop computer and free internet service on Tuesday at the Society's office in Charlestown.
"We need more members. We need persons out there who are visually impaired to step up, don't be ashamed, don"t be embarrassed make the Society continue to be a beacon that you can brighten the corner where you are," she said.
Ms Freeman registered the Society's gratitude to Cable and Wireless for the gift but underscored the need for more electronic equipment which she said would contribute to the enhancement of the member's skills not only for the benefit of the organisation but also for the general public as well.
Mrs Laverne Caines Vice President Corporate Communications and Marketing who was on hand for the presentation, said Cable and Wireless responded to a request from Ms Freeman which she had made some months ago, during a monthly programme "Connections" aired on a local radio station
We are indeed very pleased at Cable and Wireless to offer this assistance to the Nevis Blind Light and Visually Impaired Society. We understand that this [Society] could easily become marginalised in our society because we are not yet at that level, where we take a lot of concern about this particular group of persons and we [Cable and Wireless] certainly would like to lead from the front.
"In fact in October last year when we celebrated Internet Month, we, for that very reason, sought out the Special Education Unit and presented them with a laptop similarly because we believe these persons ought to be brought into the main stream of activity and notwithstanding their particular challenges, they ought not to be isolated and Cable and Wireless as an international organisation, recognises that it has to lead from the front in so far as bringing them into the mainstream is concerned," she said.
According to Mrs Caines, persons who are visually impaired have a right to employment and all other rights and privileges that people who have all their faculties in order do and that it was important that the Society was assisted. She said she was hopeful that the gift would bring some growth and development to the Society's members.
The Society has and continues to receive assistance from the Nevis Island Administration on an annual basis.
Mr Wrenford Dore the Society's Project Officer gave the vote of thanks and Vice President Mr Alistair Dore was in attendance.
