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School for deaf in financial crisis
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Daiton Matope - 18-07-2002 |
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Centres for the blind, deaf and learning difficulties programme (LDP) at Montfort School for the Deaf are facing a number of problems that undermine their efforts in delivering their services.
The school’s resources centre officer in-charge Joseph Kuphazi, headteacher Joseph Manjomo and LDP coordinator Patrick Chikapa disclosed in an interview that the centres were failing to offer quality education due to financial, material and human resources problems.
The three officials disclosed this at a function held at Chiradzulu Secondary School to commemorate this year’s National Education Day.
According to Chikapa, LDP started in 1996 and specialises in mental retardation, learning disabilities, and language and communication disorders.
The three officials also cited lack of specialised staff and insufficient personnel as major setbacks crippling their efforts in delivering to the maximum.
“We send some people with multiple disabilities back because we do not have special trained staff to deal with them. This has a negative impact on such people and they feel neglected,” said Kuphazi.
Addressing the gathering, Minister of Local Government Patrick Mbewe, MP for Chiradzulu Central, appealed to individuals, non-governmental organisations and other stakeholders to assist the needy but with focus on persons with disabilities.
The minister said lack of teaching materials, boarding facilities and lack of interest by parents and guardians to send their children with disabilities to the centres and transport were some of the problems rocking education in general. |
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