During its assessment tour on the impact made on its early childhood education development for children with disabilities in Chiradzulu, Mangochi and Phalombe, Malawi Council for the Handicapped (MACOHA) took the opportunity to spread awareness of COVID-19 as well as its preventive measures.
MACOHA earlier taught guardians how to produce assistive learning devices
Mpunga (right) presenting materials for COVID-19 preventive measures
Project coordinator, Mercy Mpunga who is MACOHA’s women and children programmes officer said they thought it wise not to take the national awareness campaign for granted but to assess the situation on the ground how best children with disabilities can be protected.
Alice Te Punga Somerville cleans up the myth of Captain Cook s legacy
15 Jan, 2021 03:00 AM
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By: Alice Te Punga Somerville
Scholar and poet Alice Te Punga Somerville was asked to contribute a piece for a journal to mark the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook s arrival in Aotearoa – that article is now published as Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook, in the BWB Texts series. In this extract, Te Punga Somerville explores pushing back against Cook s global colonial legacy.
34. By pushing back
One of the projects of Indigenous people is to push back against colonial narratives. This is the bit I describe to my students as walking into a room on the television show Hoarders, getting a broom and a rubbish bag, climbing over all the junk until you get to the centre and making a space that reveals some of the floor underneath. If you started at the door and tried to work your way in, you would get discouraged by the sheer size of