EASTERN PROVINCE

NGOMA — The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), on Wednesday donated an assortment of clothes to about 150 disabled pupils of Musya and Sangaza primary schools.

The donation was handed over by Ivan Niyiguha, ADRA’s Special Needs Education Coordinator (SNEC).

According to Niyiguha, the donation is part of their two-year on-going education project dubbed "Child friendly Schools” that started last year aimed at enabling all children to access quality education. It puts particular emphasis on the disabled children.

"The disabled people especially the young should be valued as human beings too and should be given equal rights in society especially in the educational sector,” Niyiguha said, adding that changing the society’s attitude towards the disabled especially the young is their main objective.

Niyiguha disclosed that 697 out of 973 disabled children who are under Child Friendly Schools’ project have so far got enough clothes and educational materials; including brail equipments, chats, calendars among other things for children with visual impairment.

He said about 170 teachers would also be trained as Special Needs Educational Teachers (SNET) who will help in mobilizing and sensitizing parents, children, fellow teachers and the general public about children’s rights.

ADRA-Rwanda has also trained 40 teachers in "Special Needs Education, to handle children with different physical disabilities.

The programme has been implemented in 20 schools across the eastern districts and part of Northern Province.At least two teachers were selected from each of the implementing schools. 

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