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Equipment for the
center has been customized to meet the needs of the visually impaired, which
include translations and talking keyboards. The
Minister of Communications Haruna Iddrisu, who inaugurated the project, said
the government was committed to distributing the national cake without
discrimination.
The minister said
to further equip the school to provide its students with ICT knowledge, the
ministry would construct a new information center for the school next year.
On behalf of
GIFEC, he pledged 50 laptops with visually impaired supportive software to the
teaching staff of the school to be delivered within 10 days. With 380 students,
a little over half of which are female, lack of adequate dormitory facilities
for the female students is a major challenge.
To save the
situation, the minister also pledged to contact the Ministry of Education and
the GETFund to provide dormitory facilities and a wall for the school for the
students to get a serene environment to learn.
He urged the
school authorities not to neglect the center to deteriorate, saying “we have a
very poor maintenance culture in this country but the way you take care of our
disadvantage brothers and sisters, you will extend it to the facilities.”
The
Administrator/CEO of the GIFEC Kofi Attor said “besides the Akropong School for
the blind, a similar facility had been completed at the Wa School for the Blind
with that at Wenchi expected to be completed next year.” The school, he said,
“had a facility that was few on the continent.”
The Headmistress
of the Akropong School, Mahela Narh, expressed appreciation to the government
for the project, which, she stated, “indicated that the school was not left out
of the sharing of the national cake.”
David
Eto
bikyamasr.com