Drumming up anti-racism awareness

CULTURAL diversity was celebrated with drum-beat and good food at the National Training and Development Institute in Waterford yesterday.

Staff at the centre, which provides training programmes to people with intellectual disabilities and special needs, invited members of the locally-based African Cultural Awareness Project into class to meet and talk with some of the trainees.

The meeting was organised to raise awareness about racism and cultural difference, and the African guests played drums and cooked up an ethnic meal for the trainees.