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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