Spondon Get-together and PWDs' Excursion held
`Spondon Friends’ Circle’ organized a get-together and excursion on 27 March 2009 at the
Pine Forest of National Botanical Garden, Dhaka Bangladesh. People with disabilities from diverse background and types enthusiastically participated in this auspicious event. People with disabilities gathered in this event to learn each other, make individual friends & fellows to share their knowledge and experiences to find their common matters where they can help each other to address their own challenges.
“Spondon Friends’ Circle” is an effort of AWDP-Bangladesh to create an avenue for free sharing of information, experiences, views and opinion on the issues of their own and to strengthen
their relation and friendship among all categories of PWDs at very individual level.
During this get together a festive environment was created at Pine Forest where people with disabilities enjoyed full freedom of their choice for sharing and performing things whatever they liked to (talking, chatting, singing and other performance). Participants celebrated birthdays of ten PWD friends and marriage anniversaries of three PWD members of the Friends’ Circle. It was a very exceptional and emotional event that ever-held among people with disabilities in Bangladesh. They also celebrated marriage of a couple with blindness Jolly and Shohel who
have been newly married. They participated in ‘Spondon Friends’ Circle get-together for the first time. They mentioned that it was an amazing experience for them to feel the warmth of friendship from Spondon Friends.
Participants felicitated Jannatul Ferdous Ivy for her excellent literary works and two publications during the Ekushe Book Fair in February, one of which was bi-lingual. (her blogsite is http://jannativy.blogspot.com). It’s a great blessing of almighty Allah that Ivy could save her life just before a couple of days when she was attacked and badly injured by a group of miscreants. She attended the event though she wasn't fully cured. Participants wished her early recovery. PWD Freinds also felicitated Antora Ahmed for her big achievement, promotion to the post of AVP of AB Bank Foreign Remittance Department. She is the first PWD who could reach up to this level in the Banking sector in Bangladesh.
(her blogsite is http://antorabd.blogspot.com)
There was no preset agenda for this get-together. But the participants shared on many issues. Prevailing scenario of opportunities of participation in the socio-cultural and recreational activities of all categories of PWDs, accessibility issues, challenges/barriers of getting married/having conjugal lives by PWDs, real understanding of the category specific difficulties and limitations of PWDs, advantage and limitations of group affiliation of people with same types of disabilities and others.
The venue Pine Forest was a very beautiful, green and natural place of the Botanical Garden where PWDs of all categories got their access
to most places. Getting such a favorable environment people with disabilities started talking and chatting from the beginning to the end. Young participants didn’t forget to get aloof at downstairs of lotus pond or behind the bushes in pair. They expressed their feelings by saying that they dreamt for participating in such an event for long and `Spondon Friends’ Circle’ brought their dreams in to reality. 54 participants attended this get-together. The next get-together is expected to be held at an accessible historic place of the country.
`Spondon Friends’ Circle’ organized a get-together and excursion on 27 March 2009 at the
Pine Forest of National Botanical Garden, Dhaka Bangladesh. People with disabilities from diverse background and types enthusiastically participated in this auspicious event. People with disabilities gathered in this event to learn each other, make individual friends & fellows to share their knowledge and experiences to find their common matters where they can help each other to address their own challenges.“Spondon Friends’ Circle” is an effort of AWDP-Bangladesh to create an avenue for free sharing of information, experiences, views and opinion on the issues of their own and to strengthen
their relation and friendship among all categories of PWDs at very individual level.During this get together a festive environment was created at Pine Forest where people with disabilities enjoyed full freedom of their choice for sharing and performing things whatever they liked to (talking, chatting, singing and other performance). Participants celebrated birthdays of ten PWD friends and marriage anniversaries of three PWD members of the Friends’ Circle. It was a very exceptional and emotional event that ever-held among people with disabilities in Bangladesh. They also celebrated marriage of a couple with blindness Jolly and Shohel who
have been newly married. They participated in ‘Spondon Friends’ Circle get-together for the first time. They mentioned that it was an amazing experience for them to feel the warmth of friendship from Spondon Friends.Participants felicitated Jannatul Ferdous Ivy for her excellent literary works and two publications during the Ekushe Book Fair in February, one of which was bi-lingual. (her blogsite is http://jannativy.blogspot.com). It’s a great blessing of almighty Allah that Ivy could save her life just before a couple of days when she was attacked and badly injured by a group of miscreants. She attended the event though she wasn't fully cured. Participants wished her early recovery. PWD Freinds also felicitated Antora Ahmed for her big achievement, promotion to the post of AVP of AB Bank Foreign Remittance Department. She is the first PWD who could reach up to this level in the Banking sector in Bangladesh.
(her blogsite is http://antorabd.blogspot.com)There was no preset agenda for this get-together. But the participants shared on many issues. Prevailing scenario of opportunities of participation in the socio-cultural and recreational activities of all categories of PWDs, accessibility issues, challenges/barriers of getting married/having conjugal lives by PWDs, real understanding of the category specific difficulties and limitations of PWDs, advantage and limitations of group affiliation of people with same types of disabilities and others.
The venue Pine Forest was a very beautiful, green and natural place of the Botanical Garden where PWDs of all categories got their access
to most places. Getting such a favorable environment people with disabilities started talking and chatting from the beginning to the end. Young participants didn’t forget to get aloof at downstairs of lotus pond or behind the bushes in pair. They expressed their feelings by saying that they dreamt for participating in such an event for long and `Spondon Friends’ Circle’ brought their dreams in to reality. 54 participants attended this get-together. The next get-together is expected to be held at an accessible historic place of the country.
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