CHILDREN of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre (PRRC) joined those of the Ministry of Public Health Open Door Centre (MoPHODC) Friday in celebrating “Mash” through the city streets.

Children in wheelchairs put their physical challenges aside and gyrated the best way they could to pulsating music, while waving flags in colourful face masks.

A brightly decorated wheelchair float and a child in costume brought life to the parade, as they attracted all in their vicinity. With bright smiles, the children joined with teachers and their guardians to enjoy a day of fun in the sun.

The PRRC tramped under the theme, ‘Leaping forward’ while the theme for the MoPHODC was ‘Victory for the disabled.’

PRRC is a not-for-profit organisation which provides rehabilitation services for children with physical/developmental disabilities, amputees and persons with hearing impairment; it also provides rehabilitation programmes in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and speech & language therapy, among other services.

The PRRC relies heavily on the support of donors and friends to make their services possible, most of which are provided free of cost in its efforts to ensure that quality rehabilitation care is always within reach of those who need them. The PRRC began as the Polio Rehabilitation Centre on January 19, 1967. It was established by the Ministry of Health initially as a unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, created to provide rehabilitation therapy specifically for children affected by Guyana’s poliomyelitis epidemics of the early 1960s. The PRRC celebrated 50 years of service on January 19, 2017. The centre welcomes all donors, volunteers & caregivers who wish to contribute.