Inspiration Centre Celebrates Talents of Children with Disabilities

Every year since 2014, the Inspiration Centre has been distributing calendars featuring artwork of the children that it provides therapy and assistance to. But now the centre has shifted from calendars to tote bags that still feature the art skills of the children. Today it held a ceremony to highlight nine of the children whose talents are displayed on the first bags that were handed to them, filled with supplies that are important in their progress. Kim Simplis-Barrow shared some of the strides the Inspiration Centre has made over the years, after which the facility’s Executive Director, Jocelyn Lopez, touched on some of the services that the facility has offered to over a thousand children so far.

Kim Simplis-Barrow

Kim Simplis-Barrow, Founder, Inspiration Centre

“The Inspiration Center continues to have its challenges, but like I said, we will continue to be here because it’s the oldest center, in the country that offers the services that the center offers to our children with disabilities.”

Marion Ali

“Do you have plans to maybe expand the services, marry another service with this one?”

Kim Simplis-Barrow

“We continue to work on partnerships. We continue to work on developing new partnerships on fostering the partners that we currently have, especially with government.”

Joycelyn Lopez

Joycelyn Lopez, Executive Director, Inspiration Centre

“Right now we have 160 children that are receiving PT services in person, speech and occupational therapy via teletherapy. We also offer other programs in collaboration with World Paediatric Project. That is the club foot correction  using the CAST method. We cater to children from birth to 16 years old. So some of our children are very young and some of them are in school. And yes, children do come to the center on a daily basis. We also go into the community to do mobile clinics.”