B.C.V.I. showcases photographic exhibit at A.G.M.

The Belize Centre for the Visually Impaired is holding its Annual General Meeting at the Image Factory Art Gallery tonight. If you’re wondering about the venue, the event is being held at the art gallery because there will also be a photographic display of B.C.V.I.’s work, compiled by international photographer, Marie Triller. The event has been planned to coincide with Disabilities Week which is being celebrated next week. We spoke to B.C.V.I.’s Communications Officer, Carla Ayres Musa, and she told us that some of the people captured in the photographs are BCVI’s clients.

Carla Ayres Musa, Communications Officer, B.C.V.I.
“Tonight we’re having a photographic exhibition, we have some pictures that were taken by an international photographer Marie Triller. And we want to highlight her work and in light of disabilities week, which is coming up next week, we thought this would be a good time because a lot of people don’t realize that blindness is a disability. You think about someone in a wheelchair when you think about someone with a disability. So we thought this would be a good time.”

“We have some who are actually clients who had cataract surgeries, who were in our office. This children are all our clients; they are either blind of visually impaired and we have some, I believe, that are regularly sighted and they just came for an eye check-up. Although we’re having our AGM tonight, we wanted to make it more about the work that we do for somebody who may not know about B.C.V.I. so we’ve invited or we’re inviting whoever wants to stop by after seven o’clock tonight. Come and see the work we’ve done, the clients we have and find out how you can make the most of the services that B.C.V.I. has to offer.”

Also being launched tonight is the new and improved B.C.V.I. website at www.bcvi.org.