Bettina Hewlett-Bogart, a presbyter of the Good Shepherd Congregation of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has pleaded for the provision of greater funding to provide a decent education and life for most children, including those with disabilities.
Visually challenged people must be treated better, according to Mrs. Hewlett-Bogart, who made the call at a presentation by the church to the New Horizon E.P. Educational Centre for the Blind in Ho.
She urged parents who were concealing their visually impaired children to stop and enrol them in the New Horizon educational facility for quality of life.
We will make every effort to help the centre because Good Shepherd Lashibi embraced it. Children should go outside with their parents. Come to the appropriate location, ask for assistance, and receive it. Nobody will find them and assist them if you hide them. The youngsters will, however, have a bright future if adults behave well, she continued.
In this residential facility for children and teenagers with visual impairments, rehabilitation is provided so that, based on their levels and abilities, they can enter regular classrooms and study alongside other students.
The youngsters receive instruction in a variety of areas, including social skills, braille literacy, accessible computers, daily living, and mobility skills.
As part of the church's year-long celebrations of its 25th anniversary, a presentation was given to the school.
Twenty school bags, five bags of 25 kg rice, three bags of 5 kg rice, a box of noodles, a 25 L gallon of oil, two crates of milk, twelve cans of fish, six boxes of biscuits, a box of beverages, packs of drinks, two boxes of sanitary pads, packs of tissue paper, and detergents were among the items donated.
Catechist Gershon Breni said that the contribution was made as part of a corporate social responsibility initiative to enhance the children's living and learning environments. He said that the church will not stop working to make sure that children with disabilities have a place to live and the right kind of education to advance their understanding, abilities, and talents.
In a speech, the school prefect, Mary Deh, claimed that without the help of the Evangelical Presbyterian Educational Centre for the Blind, the rights of students with disabilities, especially those who are visually impaired, to an education would have been restricted.
We are making outstanding academic progress despite our disability, which is important to highlight. For instance, one of us in primary six last year had math in grade one. Another person who attended the accessible computer course finished it and was admitted to the Presbyterian College of Instruction to pursue a degree in elementary instruction. These triumphs demonstrate unequivocally that incapacity does not equal disability and that, as our tagline says, there is vision beyond sight," she continued.
She made a plea for funding for a new braille embosser device so that students would have access to sufficient braille books.
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The goal of the German-based Deutsches Blindenhilfswerk (DBHW), whose speaker of the advisory board, Regine Hauch, promised the organization's ongoing support to the school, is to close the disability gap and make sure that children who are blind or visually impaired are given the opportunity to attend regular schools and compete with their peers.
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