SPECIAL NEEDS WALK

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A number of issues continue to plague the disabled community in the country with some problems  specific to Tobago.  This from President of the Tobago Region Persons with Disabilities Doniel Reyes. The group recently held a walk through Scarborough. More in this report.

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00:00Some of the things that we want to really address in Tobago is schools for

00:05persons with disability and children with disability. Transportation is another

00:10problem that we have in. Housing is another problem that we have in, right,

00:14because we want to get all these things on them and we're looking for office for

00:19persons with disability so parents could come and share their concerns and

00:24we could take it to social services and tell them, you know, why all these people

00:28here not getting grants and having problems of getting grants and all these things.

00:32TV6 News caught up with a group following the walk through Scarborough.

00:37Fira Melville spoke about her struggles with her 16-year-old special needs child,

00:43Faith. People don't understand the challenge we go through and the

00:47difficulties that we go through. Even to move them around, you know, you have a

00:51special needs child and they want to take the child out, even to the beach.

00:55Sometimes transport, they refuse to even take you up with a wheelchair, right, so

01:01that's a challenge that we are going through. And sometimes, you know, parents,

01:05even though you are working, your money never enough to take care of them.

01:09Sometimes you get a little issue, you go to social welfare and stuff and the kind of way they

01:14treat you like nobody. People look down at children, parents and children with

01:19disability and we need for that to stop within Tobago. We'll say Trinidad and Tobago.

01:24Ms Melville says caring for her daughter Faith is no easy task.

01:29My daughter now, I have to be lifting her, to bathe her, to do everything because she can't do

01:35everything for herself, so it's very hard. And within my situation, I'm not

01:39supposed to do that, but you know I have no choice. You understand? So it is very

01:44hard, right? And people have to understand, people need to show love more to

01:51special need children. But she remains thankful for the support of a few.

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