Met die kollig op die inklusiwiteit van gestremde mense, maak die sprankelende radiopersoonlikheid Bonita Blankenberg eersdaags haar verhoogdebuut om die Internasionale Dag van Gestremde Persone te herdenk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op 4 Desember gaan sy kragte snoer met die nie-regeringsorganisasie LoudAbility en \u2019n paar ander Kaapstadse musikante om die dag met musiek en sang te herdenk en geld vir die werk van die organisasie in te samel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 dag word w\u00eareldwyd op 3 Desember gevier om die belangrikheid van die insluiting van gestremde mense in die lewe en die werkplek te bevorder, asook die erkenning van sigbare en onsigbare gestremdhede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As \u2019n jaarlikse gebeurtenis word die dag deur die Verenigde Nasies aangebied en moedig hy sakeleiers reg oor die w\u00eareld aan om die unieke bydraes van gestremde mense te waardeer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As blinde is Bonita goed vertroud met die uitdagings wat mense met gestremdhede daagliks in die gesig staar \u2013 of dit nou op persoonlike of korporatiewe vlak is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk ken soveel gestremde mense wat behoorlik gekwalifiseer is, wat by die huis sit en van hul Sassa-toelaag lewe \u2013 doodeenvoudig omdat hulle nie werk kry nie. Hulle word net nie as employable<\/em> beskou nie. Daar is nog baie bewusmaking wat gedoen moet word. As jy vir iemand met \u2019n gestremdheid werk gee, gee jy soveel meer as net \u2019n werk. Maar dis nie \u2019n bejammeringsveldtog nie. Ons wil nie liefdadigheid h\u00ea nie, ons wil waardigheid h\u00ea. We don\u2019t want handouts, we will work for it<\/em>,\u201d s\u00ea sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bonita het bekendheid verwerf op plaaslike luggolwe toe sy in 2016 by Bok Radio as omroeper aangesluit het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Met haar warm persoonlikheid en aansteeklike laggie het Bon, soos luisteraars haar leer ken het, vinnig harte gesteel en haar stem laat hoor in kwessies na aan haar hart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bonita is blind gebore en het grootgeword op die Kaapse Vlakte. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sy het skool gegaan by die Athlone-skool vir blindes, waar sy ook tans onderwys gee vir gr. 5- tot 7-leerders met Engels as vak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n N\u00e1 skool het sy joernalistiek gestudeer aan die Kaapse Skiereiland Universiteit van Tegnologie waarna sy by \u2019n paar radiostasies, insluitend Bush Radio en KFM en Cape Talk gewerk het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sy het van kleins af \u2019n voorliefde vir sang gehad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk is \u2019n regte diva en het vir ure met haarborsels voor die spie\u00ebl gesing. Later het ek saam met vriende gesing, maar het nou besluit dis tyd om verhoog toe te gaan voor die midlife crisis <\/em>my tref.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dit sal die eerste keer wees dat Bonita by \u2019n band<\/span> op die verhoog aansluit vir \u2019n optrede. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk is so opgewonde, maar ook \u2019n bietjie bang. In die studio kruip ek gemaklik agter die mikrofoon weg \u2013 iets wat ek nie op die verhoog sal kan doen nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die liedjies wat sy gaan sing, is die klankbaan van haar lewe, s\u00ea sy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDis alles songs<\/em> waarvan ek hou en waarmee ek grootgeword het \u2013 alles van Amanda Strydom tot Fairground Attraction en the Pointer Sisters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n LoudAbility bied al meer as \u2019n dekade lank bemagtigingsbystand aan mense wat met gestremdhede leef. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sedert sy ontstaan in 2010 speel die organisasie \u2019n betekenisvolle rol in die opleiding en toerusting van mense met gestremdhede binne gemeenskappe rondom die Wes-Kaap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die organisasie spits homself daarop toe om mense met gestremdhede te inspireer om hul vermo\u00ebns uit te leef binne die milieu van musiek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bonita het saam met LoudAbility opgetree by \u2019n paar van die opleidingsgeleenthede waarvan hulle die afgelope paar jaar deel was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk het die verrykende proses dopgehou waar die kuns van dromspel aan jong kinders geleer is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTieners wat met meer as een gestremdheid leef en wat dikwels deur hul gemeenskappe in die bre\u00eb uitgesluit word, is opgeneem in die musikale eenheid van \u2019n orkes, waar hulle hul passie kon uitleef. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk weet dat die geld wat ons beoog om met hierdie konsert in te samel, LoudAbility sal help om voort te gaan met die puik werk wat hulle binne ons gemeenskappe doen,\u201d sluit Bonita af.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bonita sal vokaal begelei word deur Rhodney van Staden en Gary G, twee blinde musikante wat die afgelope drie dekades aktief bygedra het tot die musiekbroederskap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ebrahiem Klaasen, stigterslid van LoudAbility, s\u00ea dis tot voordeel van gestremdes om te fokus op hul individuele vermo\u00eb, wat hulle met die w\u00eareld kan deel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn plaas daarvan om die klem te plaas op wat jy nie kan doen nie, skyn \u2019n lig op wat jy k\u00e1n bydra tot die gemeenskap waarin jy woon,\u201d gaan Klaasen voort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bonita kan elke naweek tussen 09:00 en 11:00 op Bok Radio gehoor word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die konsert vind op Sondag 4 Desember by die Heroes-restaurant in Brackenfell plaas. 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