The Pacific Disability Forum has received a financial boost in their aim in training trainers to handle people with vision impairment.
PRIDE and USP representatives handed $50,000 to the organization as part of their funding for the first ever Pacific Regional Non-award "Professional Diploma in Orientation and Mobility" Pacific Region training course planned for early November.
Chief Executive Setareki Macanawai said this is great help because for the first time ever, 15 people from 15 Pacific Island countries will take part in this train-the-trainer program.
Macanawai added the focus areas of the training course will be instruction in the long cane and "sighted guide techniques".
PRIDE and USP Education Adviser Sereana Tagivakatini said the down payment is part of the $130,000 planned for the course and added the program will look at partially and fully impaired children as there is lack of proper training for such children.
There will be a total of 15 participants from the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Tonga, Samoa, Niue, PNG, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Tokelau, Nauru and Fiji.
Pacific Disability Forum Receives Boost
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