Three special schools at UWR receive services from Plan International Ghana
Plan International Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) has purchased special teaching and learning materials for three special schools in the Upper West Region.
Beneficiary schools are the School for the Blind, Wa Methodist School for the Deaf and Dumb and Saint Don Bosco Special School.
Wa School for the Blind will receive items including: white sticks, Perkins bailers, stylus, digital voice recorders, amplifiers, Braille embossers, and Duxbury Braille translator software at GH indleko cost 195,300.
Wa School for the Deaf and Dumb will be provided with exercise books, My First Books, Second and Third Copies, pens and pencils, rulers, map of Ghana, electronic scales, projectors and drawing books among other GH ¢ 68,255.
GH ¢ 22,950 items including custom-made ludo game, speech production equipment, sewing machines, thread, medium-sized radio, double door refrigerator, electric iron and cleaning equipment will also go to Saint Don Bosco Special School.
Mr Bismarck Boateng, Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator at the Regional Office and Nempact Area of ??International Plan Ghana, during a press conference in Wa to announce the package, said the principals of three special schools had officially written to Plan International Ghana requesting supplies.
Lack of special teaching and learning resources had a negative impact on teaching and learning, as well as student performance in schools.
Mr Boateng said Plan International Ghana, in line with its mission to ensure that all children enjoy their rights to an inclusive level of education mandated for support, and the provision of learning and teaching materials that are essential to the needs of each school.
The Wa Methodist School for the Blind has 228 students made up of 90 women and 138 men with 35 teaching staff, including 20 women and 15 men.
Wa School for the Deaf and Dumb has 261 students made up of 99 women and 162 men and 29 teaching staff 12 of whom are 17 women and men.
Don Bosco School is home to 136 students, including 58 women and 79 men and the teaching capacity stands for 11 staff members of which four are women and seven men.
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