Director of HIV/AIDS and Human Rights programmes for the blind Elijah Ngwale has commended President Rupiah Banda for allocating K30billion for building the first ever boarding school for the Deaf which will cater for about 500 pupils from basic school to senior secondary school.
Mr. Ngwale said this was a welcome made by the government to consider the deaf who were facing a lot of challenges to cope up with the ordinary schools .
He told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today that the new school should be a centre for excellence for the people who are physically challenged in society.
However Mr. Ngwale also commended the Ministry of Education for training and employing blind persons as teachers in the country adding that Ministry being the biggest government employer of the physical blind has been promoting the like another able persons in key positions as head teachers and lecturer at UNZA
Mr. Ngwale appealed to the ministry to domesticate Act 24 of the convention on rights of persons with disabilities which stipulates that qualified Blind Persons must be employed as teachers .
He appealed to the ministry of Education to also ensure that each blind teacher is provided with Computer Braille equipment and Braille paper to enable teachers effectively work.
During his Presidential address to parliament, Mr Banda reaffirmed governments’ committement to improving the welfare of the physically challenged in the country.
ZANIS
This move is very much welcome… I will be the next CEO of the deaf
Thank the gvt and not RB!! RB is not gvt, he is just a disgrantled politician with no agenda!!
Late LPMs project. Just bcoz we are going for elections RB has started implementing some of LPMs ventures ? Interesting indeed………………..
#2 and 3 You are just disgruntled. Completing Projects in the pipeline is success. Shallow thinking just like Mr Sata, I hope you are as old as he is.There is no chance for the opposition next year – like it or not.
Its realy fun. The idea of a school for deaf people is a good one. The question is whether this k30 billion will land into the right hands or not. Three weeks ago when i came back from my home village in Mazabuka i left Chief Mwanachingwala (Hero, Charles Malambo) Preparing a place to build a school for the deaf. This article reminds me that the chief knew that RB. was to allocate such an amount for this purpose. I doubt it very much if this money is given to such people will be used for the intended purposes. Time will tell, this is money for campiagn.
FIRST BOARDING SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND????? What about Magwero School for the blind in Chipata???? its a boarding school!!! I have personally been there!!! its been in existence for a long time like 50 year or so!!!
…Oh actually Magwero has sections for the deaf and the blind in chipata. My school once went to play football with the deaf at their boarding school in Chipata at Magwero!!! Mr President knows this school VERY well because like me he hails from their!!
Thanked RB for what? Did he fund the project using his own money? You’re deaf not daft please.
Whether for political reasons or His excellency LPM started it or whatever reason every one wants to bring up.
How about put that all aside and we all celebrate that the Blind have actually got A School, as Zambia gradually continues to develop one piece at a time.
RB and politics. Bufi mulebepa. there is also kalumbwa school for the deaf in Lufwanyama on the Copperbelt.
It will be the quietest boarding school in Zambia.
#7 ZUZE
Yes there are two Schools one for the blind and the other one for the deaf. The all share the same name.
I might be the one on the opposite side of your team if you have played the game in 1982.
I did my grade 7 there and in 1983 I was selected to grade 8 at Munali and this same secondary housed the deaf and the blind from across the country, copperbelt, Southern, Eastern provinces ect..