EDITORIAL: Disabled children have talent too, help them

>A headteacher in Iringa has drawn our attention to a disturbing issue – how we treat children with special needs. Addressing Iringa University students during their recent tour of Mtwivila Primary School for deaf children, Mr Ally Mwakyesa noted that many parents dump children with disability in special schools and forget them.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

IPPmedia

20 Jun

Council campaigns for rights of children, disabled

Council campaigns for rights of children, disabled
IPPmedia
Moshi District Council in collaboration with Gabriella Children Rehabilitation Centre (GCRC) has conducted children's rights campaign that also helps people with disabilities to participate fully in socio-economic activities. The District Executive Director (DED), ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Jul

Cleric: Give disabled children due priority

Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT), Dr Alex Malasusa has urged the government and other education stakeholders to pay more attention to the needs of young learners who have hearing impairment.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Jun

EDITORIAL: Tanzania is endowed with abundant talent

>We may be in the grip of the Fifa World Cup fever, but this has not stopped tens of sports fans turning up at the Kibaha Education Centre grounds in Coast Region to witness the Inter-Secondary School Games (Umisseta).

 

11 years ago

Daily News

30 Apr

CCBRT helps over 1200 disabled children join school

CCBRT helps over 1200 disabled children join school
Daily News
THE Dar es Salaam-based Comprehensive Community- Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) supported more than 1,272 children with disabilities to join schools in Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro regions last year. Briefing reporters about a tour of ...

 

11 years ago

Daily News

01 May

Exercise unearths 221 neglected disabled children in Kibaha

Exercise unearths 221 neglected disabled children in Kibaha
Daily News
THE Kibaha Municipal Council in Coast Region conducted an exercise and identified 221 children with special needs and disabilities, who are not in schools. According to the Council's Deputy Chairman, Mr Sloom Bagumesh, the municipality conducted the ...

 

11 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

30 Apr

Tanzania: CCBRT Helps Over 1200 Disabled Children Join School

Tanzania: CCBRT Helps Over 1200 Disabled Children Join School
AllAfrica.com
THE Dar es Salaam-based Comprehensive Community- Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) supported more than 1,272 children with disabilities to join schools in Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro regions last year. Briefing reporters about a tour of ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Jan

EDITORIAL: Protect children’s wellbeing

>Tanzania came up the Child Rights Act of 2009 to guarantee minors their basic rights. It also signed and ratified both the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child for the same purpose.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Aug

EDITORIAL : Up quality of education offered to our children

Virtually all Tanzanian children of school-going age get a place in primary school. There is at least one secondary school in every ward, so almost every child who makes the grade gets admitted to Form One.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Jul

EDITORIAL : We shouldn’t mess with our children’s Future

Even after the education sector was reported to have excelled in the 2013-2014 Big Results Now drive, the annual report at the beginning of the year suggests that things are not as bright as the information presented at political rallies. Real improvement is to be found in only a few areas, it seems.

 

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