{"id":327,"date":"2016-02-18T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/eyecarecaribbean\/2016\/02\/18\/international-women-s-day-2016\/"},"modified":"2017-04-09T01:11:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T01:11:46","slug":"international-women-s-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/latest-news\/international-women-s-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#8217;s Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbimages alignleft size-full wp-image-432\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/site\/eyecarecaribbean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/eye-care-caribbean.png\" alt=\"eye care caribbean\" width=\"200\" height=\"38\" \/>The Caribbean Council for the Blind joins the World Blind Union in highlighting the relevance of International Women\u2019s Day to women who are blind, across the Caribbean and around the World.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Women make up more than 50% of our national populations. Their contribution to the development of: Families, Communities and nations is a fundamental prerequisite to the advancement of our civilizations. Women who are blind or who have other special needs, require expanded opportunities to participate at all levels of community and society. In recognizing this very special day, let us resolve to make our: families, communities and societies more inclusive and secure environments for women and girls who are blind.See the WBU\u2019s press statement at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/site\/eyecarecaribbean\/2016\/02\/18\/world-blind-union-press-release-international-women-s-day-2016\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arvel Grant B.Sc-Sw (Hons) DPA MPH<br \/>Chief Executive Officer<br \/>Caribbean Council For The Blind &amp; Visually Impaired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caribbean Council for the Blind joins the World Blind Union in highlighting the relevance of International Women\u2019s Day to women who are blind, across the Caribbean and around the World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}