Another issue which arose for the council was that of obtaining containers to store their donations. The President noted that due to space limitations and with the permission of Town and Country Planning, they acquired a 20 foot container, hoping to place the surplus of what came in the 40 foot container in the rooms at the council.
Unfortunately, the rooms were overflowing, and the request to place another 20 foot container on the premises of the Council was denied. Moreover, the Council has three months to clear the container and remove it from the premises.
“I thought it would have been a much smoother process than the unnecessary humps that we came upon; because we are not gaining anything from this project, just the satisfaction of seeing people being seated in a wheelchair correctly,” stated Holder-Small.
Given these events Holder-Small noted that enacted legislation is needed. “We signed on to the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities but we don’t have the legislation, and until then, nothing can happen,” she stated. “Nothing is going to make any sense to persons unless they are affected by it. If it does not hit home, it does not make any sense to you. Trust me, a lot of us did not always have disabilities and disability is something just waiting to happen. We have a lot of non-communicable diseases out there, you can get up one day and become an amputee, you never know,” she said in her closing statement.