The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all’. Poet Kahlil Gibran once said, “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

What will be – the future, moreso the future of a nation, according to the late Dr. Desrey Fox, is Guyana’s children, and the way forward to advancement is inclusivity.

In her view, inclusive education is the way to equip children, particularly vulnerable minorities.

According to her, Inclusive Education is an old concept associated also with the need to integrate special needs of children into the system.

Speaking to the Guyana Chronicle she had said, “Now it (inclusive education) is expanded and puts the focus on indigenous children and other vulnerable groups, to understand their backgrounds and ensure the education system caters for them.”

Fox had pointed out that race relations; religion, respect and patriotism are other factors that will be affected by Inclusive Education, because the younger generation, the future of Guyana, will have to understand the diversity of the country.