English By Moki Edwin Kindzeka Share on Facebook YAOUNDE, CAMEROON - Scores of blind people protested Monday in the West African nation of Cameroon to mark World Braille Day and call for more books and teachers who can use the system of touch reading and writing for the blind. Blind and visually impaired people blame the lack of braille books and teachers for their lower levels of education and struggles to be independent.
Forty-one-year old Jean Pascal Somb Lingom lost his sight to a measles attack when he was eight years old. Lingom says since he became blind in 1998, nothing much is changing and little attention is paid by the government to visually impaired persons in Cameroon.
Rivoni School for the Blind is one of six schools in Limpopo that accommodates visually-impaired and blind learners and offers classes from Grade R to Grade 12. (Ndivhuwo Mukwevho/Health-e)
On Human Rights Day a school in Limpopo has nothing to celebrate as governing body representatives castigate government for a litany of broken promises.
As 2021 approaches, for blind scholars attending Rivoni School for the blind in a Limpopo town it may just be another year of broken promises. Despite the Provincial Department of Education’s declarations it would upgrade the school over the years, nothing has happened.
But now the School Governing Body (SGB) says Rivoni will have new buildings by next year after another promise made by the department. SGB chairperson, Muhkantselo Mathimane told