Disability Friday programme launched for Disability Month
People are encouraged to spend a day in the life of a person with a disability.
The Oppie Bol Foundation launched a Disability Friday programme in a bid to raise the awareness of disability.
Foundation CEO Cazle Hendriks said people must educate themselves about disability etiquette and learn sign language.
“This initiative can showcase that we are a society inclusive of persons with disabilities,” he said.
Hendriks said the initiative is aimed at giving new life to disability awareness and not have this celebrated once a year. He also highlighted some of the strategic projects of the foundation that will empower it to achieve its objectives.
He encouraged people to not only provide material support to the foundation but also try to spend a day in the life of a person with a disability.
“If not a day, an hour or half an hour to fully understand and feel the plight of persons with disabilities. This could be done by doing activities blind folded, doing activities in a wheelchair, on crutches using one limb, using one arm and/or wearing ear plugs.”
The stakeholders applauded the work that the foundation was doing and reiterated that the inclusion of persons with disabilities in mainstream society promoted equality and restored their dignity and independence and, above all, improved their livelihood.
Langenhoven high school learners in attendance pledged their support for Disability Awareness.
The foundation said every last Friday of the month will be celebrated as Disability Friday, as this month is marked as Disability month.
Recently the foundation closed off Women’s month by spoiling women living with disabilities in and around Tshwane with massages, hair treatments, manicures and make-up.
The foundation said it decided to take the initiative and celebrate women as it felt that women with disabilities were not celebrated enough.
It further said that the celebration was not only attended by women with disabilities.
The foundation is a registered NGO, and its disability mainstreaming programmes focused on integrating persons with disabilities into broader society.
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