Documentary audio with a strong UK female voice
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Over the years, the Gambia Organisation of the Visually Impaired Gavi, a non governmental charitable organisation, has been challenging visual impairment and promoting the welfare of those with visual impairment through the provision of services and working in collaboration with stakeholders, communities and families in a barrier free environment. These services include the prevention of blindness, rehabilitation of the visually impaired and the active promotion of the rights to equal opportunities and full participation in all spheres of development. In the Gambia, where an estimated 90% of blind Children are found in the provinces with only specialist schools for the blind throughout the country, integrating visually impaired Children into mainstream education is necessary. This project integrating visually impaired Children into mainstream education, ensures that all boys and girls in the Gambia complete a full course of primary school throughout specific provision of educational opportunities to visually impaired Children, the purpose being the provision of basic education services to visually challenged Children in mainstream schools. In all the six regions of the Gambia, it has been seen that a very small number of visually impaired Children, if any at all go to mainstream schools in the provinces or are currently receiving any form of education. Where there is the teachers lack the capacity to teach such Children and they do not have the required specialist material to learn, for example, Braille machines or Braille paper. The project changes attitudes and practises of educational professionals of the right to education for Children with visual impairment and raises awareness of the positive contribution they can make to nation building. This exercise, done by Media Matic, tries to explain what the project has been able to achieve through pictures for the 36 months duration of the project. This production of video broadcasts on project lessons learned and successes also shows specialist stationary learning materials used by participating schools and national public awareness campaign activities conducted. It is evident that such knowledge and skills can be transferred to a large number of service deliverers, both trained and lay persons to pass on to an even greater number of blind people. The integrating visually impaired Children into mainstream education project will encourage all concerned within the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education to strive to devise more effective programmes to make their training available to more and more blind people