Hearing-impaired kids showcase their talents
KATHMANDU, DEC 02 - World Day of Prayer and Action for Children (DPAC) was marked here by organising various activities on Thursday.
On the occasion, Alliance for Peace, Education and Development-Nepal organised a children’s art workshop on peace aiming to realise the potential of children with disability in creativity and innovation.
Hearing-impaired children from Kendriya Bahira Uchcha Madhyamik Vidhyalaya participated in the art workshop, where council members of Nepal Academy of Fine Arts facilitated the children to create an artwork on peace.
“I am not a good artist but I am very happy to express my inner feelings and message of peace through the medium of art,” Rajendra Prasad Panta, one of the participants of the art workshop, shared his feelings with the Post in writing.
Addressing the function, Birendra Pokhrel, president of Nepal Federation of the Disabled Nepal, said, “This art workshop has played an important role in marking the Article 30 of United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which states the rights of persons with disabilities in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport.”
Pokhrel also drew the attention of stakeholders on the fact that about 92 percent children with disabilities are out of school in Nepal and stressed the need to pay special attention for their enrollment. Kiran Manandhar, senior artist and chancellor of Nepal Art Academy, said a country cannot be labelled developed, until there is an all-round development of children with disabilities.
School for deaf sans fund
JENEE RAI
KATHMANDU, DEC. 2
Central Higher Secondary School for the Deaf, Nepal’s first school for hearing-impaired children, is in a pathetic condition owing to a financial crunch.
Of five buildings of the school established in 1966 A.D., one is in vulnerable condition. “Aged slabs of its roof have started falling. The school administration hasn’t been able to repair it,” said Principal Narayan Bhakta Shrestha.
Bhakta said a new multi-storied building has to be built to replace the dilapidated building. The school is also facing shortage of buses and teachers.
Among its three old buses, one is too old to carry students and is out of use, said Shrestha, adding 26 teachers have got to teach about 400 students. There should be 45 teachers, he said. Teachers have their own tales to tell. “We are facing difficulties to teach due to the lack of signs to express abstract words,” said Usha Neupane, a Nepali teacher. More signs should be developed, she added.
The problems, according to Shrestha, are the result of the financial crunch. Though the Ministry of Education (MoE) funds salary of the teachers, it, however, does not provide money for other purposes. As the school is imparting free education up to the Plus Two level, providing for the salary alone is not enough to run it, Shrestha said. MoE Joint Spokesman Lekhnath Poudel said the ministry cannot provide more money to the school than needed for the salary.
Posted on: 2010-12-03 09:33
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