Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand yesterday afternoon turned the sod for the construction of an aquatic therapy pool for learners with Special Education Needs. A release from the Ministry of Education said that she was joined by Permanent Secretary of the Ministry Alfred King, Assistant Chief Education Officer with responsibility for Special Education Needs (SEN), Keon Cheong, Senior Education Officer (SEN) Nikoya Alleyne and project donor, Teddy Mohammed.
The proposed site of the pool is the Regional Special Education Needs/Disability Diagnostic and Treatment Centre, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown.
During the brief ceremony, it was highlighted that the project will benefit some 200 learners and forms part of the ministry’s broader plan to ensure learners’ needs are met.
The Department of Public Information (DPI) said that the event was hosted at the Cyril Potter College of Education’s Turkeyen Campus.
Cheong said that, “this initiative of an aquatic centre is beyond our wildest imagination. It takes Guyana on another level, higher. It also widens our scope. It brings and turns eyes and heads to us with the strides that we are making here as a country.”
Trinidadian proprietor of Caribbean Educational Publishers, Teddy Mohammed is the financier.
