The School for Disabled Children is a new school in Jiboro, The Gambia, that provides Special Education.
In The Gambia there are many deaf children. Why there are so many deaf children in The Gambia is not easy to answer.
Of course Malaria will take its toll but also meningitis, wrong use of medicine and heredity are causes. When these children, and there are hundreds, will not get any education, they will have a tough time surviving, because The Gambia is one of the poorest countries in West-Africa.
In The Gambia there are no natural resources and there is almost no wild life. Their income mostly comes from tourism. The beautiful beaches on the coastline attracts many tourists mostly from England, Holland and the Scandinavian areas.
Many foreign organizations are helping the people in The Gambia to build Hospitals, Schools, Skill Centers and are also helping to grow crops and vegetables in the Women's gardens that can be sold by the women to earn some money.
The School for Disabled Children has been built under the supervision of The Care Foundation The Gambia (www.carefoundationthegambia.nl). November 2016 we started with a small class of deaf children. The children all entered at a different time so every time the lessons had to start all over again. Luckily the children are very patient and they did not mind. We started with teacher Bakary Fatty and in March we hired an education assistant, David, who himself is in a wheelchair. He therefor is a good example to the children that life does not stop when you have a handicap.
Slowly the classes are being extended and offer room for children with a minor mental problem.
In the vicinity of Jiboro are many little villages that have children who have no education at all because of their disability. They can now be helped because the school where they should go to, is situated in Jiboro and is not too far away for them to go to.
The new school will educate them and give them more opportunities to find work and to express themselves in the land of the hearing.
Of course Malaria will take its toll but also meningitis, wrong use of medicine and heredity are causes. When these children, and there are hundreds, will not get any education, they will have a tough time surviving, because The Gambia is one of the poorest countries in West-Africa.
In The Gambia there are no natural resources and there is almost no wild life. Their income mostly comes from tourism. The beautiful beaches on the coastline attracts many tourists mostly from England, Holland and the Scandinavian areas.
Many foreign organizations are helping the people in The Gambia to build Hospitals, Schools, Skill Centers and are also helping to grow crops and vegetables in the Women's gardens that can be sold by the women to earn some money.
The School for Disabled Children has been built under the supervision of The Care Foundation The Gambia (www.carefoundationthegambia.nl). November 2016 we started with a small class of deaf children. The children all entered at a different time so every time the lessons had to start all over again. Luckily the children are very patient and they did not mind. We started with teacher Bakary Fatty and in March we hired an education assistant, David, who himself is in a wheelchair. He therefor is a good example to the children that life does not stop when you have a handicap.
Slowly the classes are being extended and offer room for children with a minor mental problem.
In the vicinity of Jiboro are many little villages that have children who have no education at all because of their disability. They can now be helped because the school where they should go to, is situated in Jiboro and is not too far away for them to go to.
The new school will educate them and give them more opportunities to find work and to express themselves in the land of the hearing.