STUDENTS from two schools in Castleisland paid a visit to Enable Ireland Kerry children’s services in Oakview Village on Friday to learn more about living with disability and to present a cheque.

Presentation Secondary Castleisland and St Patrick’s Secondary School Castleisland are in partnership for the TY programme and the students are doing a project on disability awareness for the Young Social Innovators programme.

“It’s about the importance of inclusion and sense of purpose for people with disabilities,” said TY and YSI teacher at the schools, Mairead Lane Cronin.

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“Enable Ireland do a disability awareness programme for secondary schools with four modules and part of it is to increase people’s awareness of disability, so it’s great to have them here today,” said Sean Scally of Enable Ireland Kerry.

“The students decided themselves that since they were doing the module that they would collect €2 each, while the first years also helped out with a project on famous people with disabilities,” said Mairead. “Coming here today has showcased to them how important Enable Ireland is and what they do.”