On Sunday, to mark the first day of this year’s event, the Presidential Palace opened its doors to children with disabilites and special needs, as part of the many functions that will take place during the 3 day fund-raising charity event for these children. The children had the opportunity to talk and lunch with President Demetris Christofias and his wife Elsi, and seemed to completely enjoy the organised events which included dancing, singing, games and magic tricks.

In her welcoming speech, Mrs. Christofias said ‘’This year Radiomarathon celebrates 20 years of existence. While 20 years ago, this institution was trying to make people aware of the problems of people with special needs, today it is fighting for their full integration into society. Radiomarathon is now an all encompassing social institution which has been embraced with love by the whole of society. The people of Cyprus supported the event through all these years, giving generously’’.

The Radiomarathon will be holding special fund-raising events around Cyprus on Monday and Tuesday. There will be 53 kiosks operating in every town for donations, as well as 14 piggy-bank cars which will be on tour to collect money from villages.  During event there will also be marches, sport and other charity functions around Cyprus.

We still want your suggestions, as many as we can get, and you still have a few days to complete the survey and choose a free ebook. We will end the offer after 31st August, so hurry over to http://www.freedomhomescyprus.com/survey.html, download the survey, complete and return to us stating which ebook you would like from the list on the page.

If you have a problem completing the form, we will give everyone who simply emails in to us their answers a free ebook anyway, without actually filling in the form, just write as many answers as you can into an email, and send to us at admin@freedomhomescyprus.com. We particularly want to know what you need or want in a home in Cyprus. Your answers will help us to make our new disabled homes the best that they could be.

The equipment was purchased by the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) and given away free to specific municipalities. These new additions brings the total of Cyprus beaches with disabled access to 33, and will be much welcomed by both handicapped people and their carers. The CTO also stressed that most disabled access fittings are removed during the winter months to protect them from storm damage. This is usually from around October to March, and they get fitted back again around April. You can see the full list of beaches that have access and facilities for disabled on our cyprus beaches with disabled access page here. Also take a look at the weather and temperature in Cyprus on the left side of the page. At the time of writing it is a gorgeous hot and sunny day, time for the beach I think, see you there!