More than one thousand people mark White Cane Day

meer dan 1000 bij

SURINAME – After a few warm up exercises many people with and without a visual impairment jogged and walked through the streets of Paramaribo on Saturday. The Nationale Stichting Blindenzorg Suriname (NSBS), Stichting Wan Okasi and the Surinamese Olympic Comittee organized this event to mark White Cane Day, October 15. These organizations want to raise awareness regarding the meaning of the white cane. “We were asked to give more information about the white cane,” said Natasia Hanenberg-Agard, director at the NSBS…[+]