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Ageing In Belize, NCA Featured In Global Action on Ageing Newsletter
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Belize
July 25, 2007
A poster by the National Council on Ageing in Belize, N-C-A, is being
featured in the latest issue of the Global Action on Ageing Newsletter.
Executive Director of the National Council on Ageing, Lindy Jeffery
tells us about the poster.
Lindy Jeffery:Executive Director of the National Council on Ageing.
“The poster is depicting the Voice organization which is a new group of
older persons in the country. It’s a representative organization for the
older person. It doesn’t necessarily stand for anything but the older
people themselves just decided that VOICE was a good name for them
because they wanted a voice in society. They wanted people to take
notice of them and so we have the poster printed as part of a public
awareness campaign on behalf of the organization.The National Council on
Ageing is supporting them until they get to a situation where they can
become an NGO in their own right. But working with older people, they
just need a little bit of support for now until they reach that stage.”
Jeffery explains how an international body got hold of the poster. She
also explains what such an exposure means for Belize.
Lindy Jeffery: Executive Director of the National Council on Ageing
“The Global Action on Ageing is a UN organization based in New York and
they sent requesting information from me just generally about the work
of the National Council on Ageing. I sent them some information. They
wanted a questionnaire completed so I replied to them and I sent them a
copy of the poster saying that you might be interested in this because
this is a new initiative for Belize in establishing a representative
organization for older persons. And then by surprise they liked it and
they printed it on the front cover of their newsletter which was great
for us to have something representing Belize on a worldwide distribution
of a newsletter. People will see that little Belize is doing something
for older persons, that we have come a long way in terms of looking at
the plan of action which the government signed up to a few years ago. We
are implementing our national policy which contains a lot of information
about what we feel is necessary to make life for older persons better in
Belize. So we are working and it means that you know, people around the
world now can see that Belize is doing something.”
The National Council on Ageing is funded by the Government of Belize
through the Ministry of Human Development. To view the poster, which is
on the July 9-13 issue of the Global Action on Aging newsletter, visit
the Global Action on Aging website at www.globalaging.org .
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