LAHORE: A group of young people continue to work to support disability rights in Pakistan. Khizran, an architecture student at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, and alumna of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program in Pakistan (Global UGRAD-Pakistan) works with children with hearing impairments: “I always felt that a person is only disabled if the society […]
Ghana: NGO supports mothers of children with cerebral palsy
Women of Love Ministry, a non-governmental organization that aims to empower women to be entrepreneurs, has supported two women with some equipment to start working to earn a living. Ms Rebecca Agama, a seamstress and a mother of a child with cerebral palsy was supported with a sewing machine. Rosemary Ladzi, another mother, was supported […]
Ghana: National Assessment and Resource Centre calls for urgent attention
The National Assessment and Resource Centre in Ghana, a place where children with special educational needs are assessed for appropriate placement into school, needs urgent attention from government. Mr Anthony Boateng, Director of the Special Education Division of the Ghana Education Service has called for expedite action to complete a new building for the Centre. […]
Pakistan: NDF and USAID launch women’s empowerment project
Nawabshah, Pakistan: 01st July 2016: The National Disability & Development Forum (NDF) recently announced a new project called ‘Empowering Women with Disabilities through Skills Development’. The project, coordinated and run by NDF is funded by the USAID Small Grants Ambassador Fund Programme. Mr. Abid Lashari, president of NDF speaking during the launch ceremony, said that […]
Ghana: children with cerebral palsy must be supported in education
Ghana: Mrs Trudy Segbefia, Special Education Coordinator in the Akuapem North Municipal Office, recently reiterated the need for special education needs teachers in mainstream schools to support children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). She said: “We have special schools for all disability groups, but none for children with CP, we have schools for the blind, deaf and […]
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