Request from KG VI: We are desperately trying to find ways to improve teaching of deaf students. There can be no teaching while teachers do not know sign language. We have designed a course to teach students teachers who intend to teach deaf students when they graduate. Unbelievable that sign language is not offered as a subject at the college but it isn’t. This year we have no funds to continue with the very successful sign language teaching programme we ran last year. We would like to hold 3 lessons per week, 2 for the trainee teachers and 1 for parents of deaf children. We have 6 facilitators and there are on average 12 working weeks in a term.
Per term: € 1100
Total for a year: € 3300
About KGVI
KG VI provides rehabilitation and boarding facilities to children from age 3 to 18 with physical disabilities and hearing impairments. It is the only secondary education facility in Zimbabwe for children with disabilities and the only primary school in the southern part of the country.
Through its school program, KGVI offers rigorous academic training leading to collegiate admission, and trade-oriented programs for those unprepared to pursue higher education. Physiotherapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy are also offered to every child by staff and assistance from international volunteers. KGVI operates 10 independent living housing where graduates live in a group setting with assistance from house parents.
Graduates of KGVI graduate with critical life and leadership skills; several have even become guardians of younger siblings when serious illness cut short the lives of parents. In a country where the average life expectancy is less than 40, more than1.2 million children have been left without one or both parents due to the Aids pandemic, as reported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Currently KGVI is reliant on the generosity of donors from around the world who believe that every child should have the chance to live a full and productive life, in spite of physical or medical challenges.
TOTAL € 3300,--
ADOPTED BY BOUWMEESTER FOUNDATION
Per term: € 1100
Total for a year: € 3300
About KGVI
KG VI provides rehabilitation and boarding facilities to children from age 3 to 18 with physical disabilities and hearing impairments. It is the only secondary education facility in Zimbabwe for children with disabilities and the only primary school in the southern part of the country.
Through its school program, KGVI offers rigorous academic training leading to collegiate admission, and trade-oriented programs for those unprepared to pursue higher education. Physiotherapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy are also offered to every child by staff and assistance from international volunteers. KGVI operates 10 independent living housing where graduates live in a group setting with assistance from house parents.
Graduates of KGVI graduate with critical life and leadership skills; several have even become guardians of younger siblings when serious illness cut short the lives of parents. In a country where the average life expectancy is less than 40, more than1.2 million children have been left without one or both parents due to the Aids pandemic, as reported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Currently KGVI is reliant on the generosity of donors from around the world who believe that every child should have the chance to live a full and productive life, in spite of physical or medical challenges.
TOTAL € 3300,--
ADOPTED BY BOUWMEESTER FOUNDATION
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