Do disabled have a shot at education?

Disabled people call for inclusive education system
Daily News
TANZANIA has to promote an inclusive education system through which multi disabled students can excel as it has been their dream for so long. Tanzania League of the Blind (TLB), Vice-Chairman, Mr Robert Bundala said recently that the system must ...

Kinondoni Council Eyes Sh800 Million for Disabled People's Education
AllAfrica.com
KINONDONI municipality in Dar es Salaam region, in collaboration with Beula Communications, has organized a campaign aimed at raising 800m/- in cash and equipment to enable students with various forms of disability access quality education. To support ...

Opening of World Education Forum 2015, Seoul. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon centre, at the opening of the World Education Forum 2015, in Seoul. He is flanked by Hwang Woo-yea (left), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education of the Republic of Korea; and Irina Bokova, Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). 19 May 2015. Seoul, Republic of Korea. (UN Photo/Evan Schneider).

Tanzania’s Minister for Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT),...

Mr Tumaini Mcharo 44, is one of the reported 2.5 million Tanzanians living with one form of disability or other. As experts gathered last weekend in Dar es Salaam to discuss ways of helping the disabled, Mr Mcharo, who was at the meeting, gave a testimony to the common adage that disability is not inability.

A Constituent Assembly (CA) member has praised the CA secretariat for being considerate of delegates with special needs.

An estimated 500,000 disabled children are being excluded from South Africa's education system, international pressure group Human Rights Watch says.

Dodoma. Fourteen-year-old Ekilia Elias has proved not only to her school but the entire division that disability is not inability. The Standard Seven pupil at Buigiri School for the blind in Chamwino district in Dodoma region, is a star in her own right--admired by teachers and envied by fellow pupils--blind and non-blind—for her unmatched academic prowess.

Throughout human history, technology has shaped the way people live. Information and communications technologies, in particular, have impacted a lot of people’s daily lives.

As Tanzanians join the world to mark the education week, people with disabilities (PWDs) are not in a celebratory mood.