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"Disabled people live, breathe, learn, teach, eat, work get parking tickets, aspire, loaf, make love, raise families, make friends, laugh, celebrate, mourn, cry, pay taxes, and die. Disabilities are neither focal points, nor something to be ignored. They are facts of life, which each disabled person deals with and adapts to." Anon.
The John Whiffen Golden City Memorial Trust (JWGCMT) is committed to promoting and supporting personal growth for the physically and mentally challenged individuals and groups in South Africa. The Trust aims to achieve this through the provision of access to alternative and targeted communication tools to assist the physically and mentally challenged to communicate and present their ideas with confidence, and to integrate them further into mainstream society. In addition, the Trust creates and participates in a number of fundraising events each year in which its members may enter, so further enhancing self-confidence and societal acceptance. These goals and ideals are in keeping with those of John Whiffen, in whose name - and memory - the Trust has been created. More about the Trust… |
