Connacht Rugby Tickets
| Connaught Vs Harlequins, 8.00pm KO Friday 20th January 2010 - Sportsground, College rd., Galway |
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Part Time Bus Driver
Title of Position: Mini Bus Driver (CE Scheme Placement)
Duties:
· Assist the passengers onto the bus
· Strap the wheelchair users in for the journey and ensure all other passengers are using safety belts
· Assist the passengers to leave the bus when their destination is reached
Vacancy Location: Galway City and surrounding areas
Application Arrangements: Apply by sending CV to the above Email address or postal address or Fax only
Gareth Bradshaw
091-773910
E-Mail: mail@gcil.ie
Fax: 091-773919
Proposed Start Date: Early January 2012
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Saturday December 3rd at 1 pm.
Shop St. Galway, outside Brown Thomas, beside the Oscar Wilde statue.
There will be a Public Awareness Speak out, TO END EXCLUSION, highlighting and demonstrating the obstacles that people with disabilities, particularly the visually impaired and the wheelchair users, have to encounter every day in Galway – pavement kerbs, potholes, cobble-stones, access to public toilets, access to buses , access to legal parking spaces and many more.
December 3rd is the International Day of Persons with Disability, a global call for practical action to make a better world for all; where speakers in many different countries will tell the stories of their good and bad experiences and their struggles to end exclusion and their demands for effective change. Wheelchair users, others with disability, relatives and carers will make their voices heard, an historic occasion for the spoken word and effective action.
People with disabilities make up an estimated 15 % of the world’s population. Almost one fifth of the global total of persons living with disabilities encounter significant difficulties, while a quarter of the world’s population is directly affected by disability, as carers or family members. There are thousands affected in Galway alone.
Come along and tell your story to END EXCLUSION.
Organised by:
Welcome to our World Productions
Access for All - Galway City Partnership
Galway Centre for Independent Living
Contact; John Arden & Margaretta D’Arcy 091 565430
Laurie Allen 0876736984
Launch of Galway Centre for Independent Living’s Leader Forum
We are delighted to announce that the official Launch of Galway Centre for Independent Living’s Leader Forum will take place 11am-1pm on 25th November 2011.
Mayor of Galway City, Cllr Hildegarde Naughton will launch our Leader Forum in conjunction with Galway City Council’s Launch of National Accessibility Week.
This event will take place in the Council Chambers, Galway City Hall and includes keynote speakers from the Galway Leader Forum and CIL’s National Leader Forum. All are welcome.
Light refreshments will be available.
The main purpose of the Galway Leader Forum is to bring people with disabilities together in a shared positive space and advocate for the full inclusion of people with disabilities in society.
If you are interested in joining or learning more about the Leader Forum, this will be a good opportunity to meet with members and find out what they have planned for 2012.
The Galway Centre for Independent Living’s Leader Forum will exhibit pieces from their recent Art Exhibition titled ‘Tá muid in ann’, in Galway City Hall from 24th November to 2nd December.
In addition, music and poetry is available on audio at www.gcil.ie. All artists involved are local people with disabilities. The exhibition celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities held annually on 3rd December.
For further information, please contact Helena on 091773910 or email quality@gcil.ie
Connacht Rugby Home Game Ticket Winners
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So far this season the following Galway Centre for Independent Living members have won the use of our season tickets as follows: Connacht Vs Exeter Chiefs, 5.30pm Sat 13th Aug - Dubarry Park , Athlone |
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Marian Greene Sally Fahy
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Connacht Vs Scarlets, 3.15pm Sat 10th September 2011 |
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Connacht Vs Dragons, 7.30pm Friday 23th September 2011 |
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Sally Fahy |
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Connacht Vs Cardiff Blues, 6.00pm Saturday 29th October 2011 |
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John Dillon |
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Connacht Vs Toulouse, 6.00pm Saturday 19th November 2011 |
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Kathleen Cunningham |
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Interested in enjoying Lovely Leitrim’s Lakes ?
Leitrim Association for People with Disabilities have launched an accessible boat for People with Disabilities.
The Wheelyboat is a specially designed accessible boat, built to meet the needs of people with disabilities, to have access to lakes and partake in fishing, angling or just pleasure trips on the lakes.
The Wheelyboat was designed by the Wheelyboat Trust. Wheelyboats provide their disabled users with the dignity of their own independence: they make the entire water accessible, are simplicity itself to board via the roll-on, roll-off bow ramp and the level deck provides access to every corner of the boat including the helm. The boat will support disabled people with the opportunity and freedom to enjoy the lakes of Leitrim.
Leitrim Association for People with Disabilities have extended an invitation to members of Galway Centre for Independent Living to come and enjoy this new resource. If interested please contact the Galway Centre for Independent Living office on 091 773910.
We wish Leitrim Association for People with Disabilities well with their new venture.
PRESS NOTICE from WELCOME TO OUR WORLD PRODUCTIONS
Calling all wheelchair users, carers and organizations, who wish to be involved in the making of a documentary film on wheelchair access in Galway City.
The film will investigate specific locations where improvements should be made.
The aim of the film is to show how Galway can become a wheelchair-friendly city, with genuine equality and independence for its citizens and visitors.
Please reply by the end of October
Contact:
Welcome to our World Productions
C/O 10 St Bridget’s Place Lower Galway
Phone: 091 565430
email: info@welcometoourworld.org
NUIG launches Disability Legal Information Drop In Clinic
Ref: NUIG Website
The drop-in clinic will be staffed by law student volunteers and supervised by legal practitioners and Centre for Disability Law and Policy staff. Sessions will be held in the Centre for Disability Law and Policy boardroom. The clinic will run once a month and will be held on the first Wednesday of each month from 6pm-7.30pm. The first clinic session will be held on 5 October 2011. A legal practitioner and a Centre for Disability Law and Policy staff member will supervise all clinic sessions.
Volunteers at the clinic are students and not legal practitioners, and therefore cannot provide legal advice, simply information on how to address legal issues facing people with disabilities. Anyone requiring legal advice will have to consult a solicitor separately.
For details on who should attend the clinic, confidentiality, accessibility and other information, please see the clinic’s policy document.
Cuts ‘trap’ those with disabilities
Ref: Irish Times 15th September 2011
People with disabilities have become prisoners in their own home due to cuts in welfare payments and support services, it was claimed today.
Ten leading organisations have demanded that the Government should recognise the social and care needs of people with a disability or mental health problem in December’s austerity Budget.
The umbrella groups - which represent 800,000 people with disabilities - argued there is no Croke Park Agreement to protect service users across the country.
John Dolan, of the Disability Federation of Ireland, said 18.5 per cent of the population have a disability -with the percentage increasing as people age.
“Disability is not a sectoral issue, it is a social issue,” he said.
“The Taoiseach (Enda Kenny), the Tanaiste (Eamon Gilmore) and the Programme for Government have named people with disabilities, including mental health, as the Government’s social justice priority.
“There is no plan how to protect people (with a disability) from the cradle to the grave,” he added.
The groups, a range of disability and mental health support organisations, called on the Government to halt reductions in the income supports for people with disabilities who are dependent on benefits.
The Government was also urged to maintain funding for services needed by people with disabilities.
The groups maintain Government still has its social sovereignty and should put the same energy into maintaining disability services as to job creation.
Current Vacancies:
Community Employment Scheme Personal Assistant vacancies in Galway City area
Persons required to work on a one-to-one basis with individual(s) who have a physical and/or sensory disability. Previous experience essential.
Please check your eligibility with FÁS for entry onto a Community Employment Scheme if you are interested in this position
Start date 5th March 2012
Number of positions available - 5
For all the above, please send C.V and covering letter to:
Galway Centre for Independent Living, 10 Town Park Centre, Tuam Road, Galway.
or email mail@gcil.ie