Members of the Association of Justices of the Peace treating visually impaired persons to lunch at the Institute for the Blind.

The treat which took the form of a packaged lunch for the more than 35 members of the Institute and otherwise visually impaired persons, was held at their headquarters, St. Phillips Green, aback of the former Guyana Broadcasting House on High Street.

Among the benefactors was one of the longest serving members of the Institute for the Blind, Mr. Daniel Duncan, who celebrates his 95th birthday today.

President of the Association, Mr. Hermon Bholaisingh, joined by about 15 other members, led a brief thanksgiving service before distributing the packages which were gratefully received by the seniors.

Bholaisingh, who claims to have a long standing relationship with the members of the institute, said that his organisation thought it a good gesture to be able to ‘give back’ something to the less fortunate in society. He promised to make the treat an annual feature.

Noting that they each would have made his contribution to the society of which we are all a part, he recalled that the initiative commenced a few years back. He said it has always been with a sense of pride that he undertook the goodwill gesture, later inviting his organisation to come on board.

He urged the visually impaired seniors to feel free to call upon the organisation at anytime, should they be in need of help to address any matter of concern to them.

In response to Mr. Bholaisingh’s offer, President of the Guyana Institute for the Blind, Mr. Cecil Morris pointed to the compound of the building which is virtually overgrown by grass, and asked to have the grass cut before the Easter weekend.

While making it clear members of the Institute do not wish to be pitied, he nonetheless said that, as a body of visually impaired persons who cannot do many things for themselves, they would be happy to have the support of civic minded persons in society to get certain things done.