Education is still not accessible to many – Ghana Education Service

General News on Thursday, February 21, 2019

Source: ghananewsagency.org

2019-02-21

Ms. Enyonam Afi Amafuga, Regional Director of Volta, Ghana Education Service (GES), observed that despite efforts to make education accessible to all, many children were still not in school.

She stated that the necessary facilities were not provided to make them a reality, regardless of the provisions of the 1992 Constitution, strategic plans for education and inclusive education policy. , aiming to ensure that all children, regardless of their origin and disability, are in school.

Ms. Amafuga, who said this during the commissioning of the first resource and badessment center for inclusive education in Hosita, in the municipality of Ho, revealed that about 80 percent School structures always worked without any consideration for children with disabilities.

She said it was sad to see that these schools had no rails, no access ramps, no audiovisual, no braille, no other help to keep children so vulnerable in the education system.

She added that another challenge was that a good number of teachers were not trained with the skills needed to care for children with disabilities, especially if these children were in clbad with other non-disabled people.

Ms. Amafuga stated that cases of discrimination against children with disabilities had also been reported, even within the Special Needs Education Unit, thus making it difficult to keep all children at home. ;school.

She said it was for these and other reasons that these children had to be isolated in special schools, which were also unfortunately under – equipped.

Ms. Carrie Brown, director of the Kekeli Foundation, a non-governmental organization that cares for people with disabilities, said in Ghana's Strategic Plan for Education (2018-2030), which aims to make life easier for people with disabilities. Education accessible to all: "The number of registrations of other children continues to increase, the case of children with disabilities."

She said that while inclusive education was a right, less than five percent of children with intellectual disabilities in Ghana have completed primary school.

Ms. Brown said that after identifying some of these problems, the center was created to integrate all children into the traditional school system while providing them with equal opportunities for teaching and learning.