Youths with disabilities in Guyana are advocating for changes to several Acts that will improve their quality of life and create more opportunities for them to make meaningful contributions to society.
These issues were raised at the recently concluded inaugural National Youth with Disabilities Conference which was held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on December 2 and 3.
According to a release yesterday from the Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD), this conference was implemented in partnership with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It said that approximately sixty youths with disabilities from across Guyana were in attendance and were engaged in discussions relating to the current status of disability in Guyana and the required improvements to “positively change the status quo of disability in Guyana.”