COVER: Running a school for the visually impaired

>Small Braille machines can be seen on top of desks occupied by students dressed in  khaki shorts and blue sweaters on top of their white shirts. They sit quietly, and attentively listening to what  their teacher is reading aloud to them.

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

Daily News

24 Oct

School for visually impaired seeks assistance

School for visually impaired seeks assistance
Daily News
LUGOBA Secondary School in Bagamoyo district, Coast Region has asked authorities to provide special learning gadgets and equipment for students who are visually impaired. According to the school's headmaster, Mr Abdallah Sakasa, lack of the learning ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Sep

I am visually impaired and lonely

Like they say, disability is not inability and 67-year-old Michael Haule, proves so. A resident of Songambele village in Njombe Region, Haule is visually impaired but lives all alone and therefore fends for himself.

 

9 years ago

BBC

14 Oct

Teaching visually impaired children

A project in Senegal teaching visually impaired children

 

11 years ago

IPPmedia

18 Jul

OUT: Where visually impaired persons are made into 'heroes'

IPPmedia
OUT: Where visually impaired persons are made into 'heroes'
IPPmedia
Clement Ndahani (left) who has visual impairment giving explanation to one of ICT learning teachers who also has visual impairment. For Prof Elifas Bisanda, any graduate regardless his disabilities can be converted into a teacher. “Disability is not ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

27 Sep

Aisha Bahati: The visually impaired hairdresser

It is a Thursday evening, roughly about 5pm. The weather is cold as the rain just stopped. I am at the boda boda stage of Nsambya, Kevina, a suburb located in the outskirts of Kampala, waiting for Sumin Nanyonjo.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Oct

Lack of bridge disruption to school running

The lack of a bridge across the river separating Ibihwa Secondary School and a nearby village where most of students and staff reside, has been cited as an obstacle constraining smooth operation of the school.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Feb

JK says excuses running out on construction of school labs

Regional and district leaders who fail to meet an extended deadline to complete the construction of laboratories in schools could be in for trouble if remarks by President Jakaya Kikwete is anything to go by.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

17 Mar

COVER: ‘I would be married if I wasn’t in school’

>Halphani Masukira, primary school education officer for Iringa Municipality, believes that many  underprivileged girls in rural areas now have access to more opportunities than ever before.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Nov

COVER: Struggling to beat school labs deadline

>In a rush against time, sounds of a hammer driving a nail into wood fills the air momentarily. We take a quick glance around the compound and we see men in overalls mixing cement and sand.

 

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