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Ga-East Municipal District
Disabilities Educational Development Program
There exist negative attitudes and social taboos against PWDs in many parts of the World and that includes Ga-East Municipal. This leads to the neglect of these vulnerable people hampering the development of their potentials.
To many parents, it is a waste of resources and an unnecessary bother to send the physically challenged such as the deaf, the blind or the cripple to school. These children are usually marginalized. Some parents who might be very poor but willing to send Children with Disabilities (CwDs) to School would otherwise prefer to rather educate able children.
In the Ghana setting as in most of Africa, there is the need to motivate parents to send CwDs to school. The best is to support them materially and financially. It has been observed that most CwDs will normally not be brought to school without any financial and material support.
We work in the Ga-East Municipal to make life meaningful for children with disabilities through education, life skills training, and business assistance to their parents to enable them to meet their education expenses.
Program Impact
- Provided educational materials such as school uniforms, school bags, footwear, stationery, bedding, bed nets (mosquito nets), and provisions for CwDs in nursery, primary, junior, and senior high schools. 50 CwDs have benefited from these.
- Traveled extensively to rural areas to educate parents of CwDs to have the right attitude towards such children, enrolled and supported them in special schools.
- Provided computers to schools for the deaf and Braille writing machines to the blind. 60 teachers and 30 deaf children have been trained so far.
- Funded income generating activities for parents of sponsored disabled children to improve their incomes, social and economic lives, and those of their children. 15 parents or families benefited from this microfinance project.
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