Over 200 residents in Bartica, Region Seven benefitted from the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s spectacles distribution exercise yesterday, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).
Minister, Dr. Vindhya Persaud spearheaded an outreach where 237 residents received spectacles after previously being tested by Optical Works, Revision Optical, and Miracle Optical, DPI said.
The Minister also presented a wheelchair along with walking aids and talking watches to persons living with disabilities.
“We’re investing in you, and we want you to invest in yourself using your skills, your talents, your training that you will receive, to innovate, and then when you were all in the programmes, wherever you are, you will network with each other at WIIN and from start to finish, commit, finish the programme so that when you’re finished, you can use this accredited certificate to be employed more than that, I want you to start thinking about owning your own businesses”, the minister said.
Several beneficiaries shared their thoughts on the initiative.
Yvonne Braithwaite said, “I cannot see to thread the needle and I have two other young ladies in my group I have to ask them, sometime they doing something and I had to disturb them to please thread this thing so now I put on the glasses and I can see really good so I don’t have to bother anyone. So, I am thankful for this so I can see now to thread my sewing machine needle and to sew more accurate. So, thanks again for this.”
Another beneficiary, Joseph Gonsalves expressed similar views.
“I am very happy to receive this gift that the Government is giving, I feel very happy about receiving it. I thank the government for doing something like this for me because I really needed a glasses for a number of years now but I cannot afford to buy it.”
