May 14, 2021
By: Aruna Kamara (BO)
Members from various Civil Society Organizations in Bo district organized a day seminar to discuss the challenges people with disabilities, particularly those with visual impairment are facing in educational institution and other places of work.
At the Regional Office for Centre for Accountability and the Rule of Law (CARL) office last week, the Bo District Secretary of the Civil Society, Momoh Sao Kamara said that the welfare of the blind needs to be looked into particular the school going ones.
Kamara suggested that they need to investigate whether the blind pupils are being provided with learning and teaching materials like computers or type writers to enable them have positive learning outcomes.
The Director of Hope for the Blind, Abu Bakarr Kamara said that the people with disabilities need to be provided with the requisite learning materials, noting that the prevailing situation leaves much to be desired.
He said that they will be engaging the Deputy Director of Education in Bo district to ascertain the available provisions that are in store for them and how they can benefit from the free and quality education.
According to him, other civil society members including the Chairman of the Child Rights Coalition, Kenneth Amadu is part of the committee set up to engage the deputy director of education to know how many children with disabilities in school and the forms of benefit they are getting from the government’s flagship program.