GRi Education 23 – 01 - 2002

Blind ask for expansion of school facilities

 

 

Blind ask for expansion of school facilities

 

Wa (Upper West) 23 January 2002- A suggestion has been made to the government to expand facilities in the only two schools for the blind in the country to ease congestion on the campuses and admit many others who are often left out during academic years.

 

The Rev. Victor Amenovor, Chaplain of the Methodist School for the Blind at Wa, who made this suggestion in an interview with the GNA at Wa said the expansion of the Wa and Akropong schools for the blind with the installation of modern equipment that would help the blind on completion to acquire decent jobs.

 

He suggested the upgrading of the typing department with modern machines that are blind friendly and to train a lot more in telephony. Rev. Amenovor also appealed to the government to equip the music departments of the two schools to enable blind musicians to produce their own music and make it a section that would make students self-reliant on completion.

 

"There must be adequate knowledge on book binding and craft of basketry and a vocational centre where dressmaking and other vocational subject could be taught."

 

Rev. Amenovor called on the government to also assume full responsibility of the Ghana Braille press in Accra by furnishing it with modern Braille machines and equipment to enable it produce braille books, journals and other periodicals for the blind to meet the purpose for which it was established.

 

The chaplain who is himself a blind called for the revision of the guide allowance, upwards according to a particular percentage of salaries and abolish the current system where the blind visit the District directorate of Education every quarter to receive their allowances.

 

Rev. Amenovor called for the exemption of blind students from doing mathematics and science in Senior Secondary Schools and training colleges because of poor learning materials for the blind in those subjects.

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