Sept 2004

Local Students urged to enter contest

Primary School students from County Donegal are being invited to join in Ireland's National Information Day on Disability 2004 by writing a short story entitled "Someone Like Me."

The winning school from County Donegal will receive €2,000 worth of computer/audio-visual equipment and the pupil will receive €200 in art supplies/book/audio/video vouchers. The winner will also go forwarded to represent the county at national level.

Primary school students are invited to compose an essay/short story of no more than 200 words or an audio entry of less than five minutes duration. The content of the essay/audio entry should should identify the common interests, hobbies, activities, emotions and abilities shared by people with disabilities and people without disabilities or some similar theme.

Entry is restricted to one per school and the closing date for receipt of entries is Friday, 22 October 2004.

For further information including entry form, rules of the competition and lesson plan log on to www.justice.ie (click on 'publication' followed by 'equality') or write to "Someone like me" competition, PO Box 9821, Dublin 2.

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