Let’s Celebrate – Programme 4 International Day of Persons With Disabilities

admin June 6, 2013

Prgoramme 4 International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
The3rd of December is the International Day of Persons With Disabilities, is a United Nations sanctioned day that aims to promote an understanding of people with disability and encourage support for their dignity, rights and well-being. As part of the commemoration several groups around the city used the day to highlight the abilities of persons with disabilities and we were there to record and bring it to you in a programme that included, sport, business and art, lots of art.

Participants, Fiona Foley (Siel Bleu Ireland), Phena O’Connor (DLRCC), Amie Hynes Fitzpatrick (Kanchi), Eithne Fitzgerald (National Dissability Authority), Padraig Naughton (Arts Disability Ireland), Dr. Michael Brown (Development Media Workshop),Anne Kennedy (VSI volunteer), Helen Walmsley (VHI staff), Marian Maloney Nolan (Galway Centre for Independent Living)