MOYO BLIND UNITY – MOYO DISTRICT.

MOYO BLIND UNITY – MOYO DISTRICT.

The unit for the blind in Moyogirl’s primary school has started a way back in late 1960’s to cater for handicapped children who were taught with practical skills by Comboni Missionaries sisters.

Later on, the government of Uganda, ministry of education and culture by then took over the running of the unit.

The children in this unit come from parts of the world especially from the district of Adjumani, Moyo Arua and Nebbi. Others are coming from the democratic republic of Congo (DRC) and the republic of southern Sudan.

The children gathered together with their teachers at the old dormitory.

Currently, the unit for the blind holds others disabilities such as those who have communication difficulties (dumb) physically disability, partial visual impairment and those with ear problems.

The unit for the blind although has a hand of the government, it goes through many difficulties such as; lack of teaching personnel’s, lack of instructional materials, lack of proper facilities for toilets, dormitories and above all , poor feeding.

The above difficulties impels the school management to call for the parents of the unity to form an association which in future many do local fund –raising of collecting either food stuff or other materials that can give support to the unit in anyway.

Many parents, however during their meeting have expressed disappointment to some parents who have failed to care properly for their blind children.

                    Mr. Adrari who is blind giving a practical lesson to the pupils in the class room.

Testimonies were given by both parents and some of the blind people on the difficulties through a blind person go every day.

They expressed difficulties on the need of the blind child among which includes, love security, provision of basic needs, education and name them. It has been realise that many people like calling the disabled persons with nickname such as (Mio) in madi meaning without eyes or (Agavuru) meaning one who crawls etc………….certainly , this is not the case with the children in Moyo girls unit the blinds because they are loved and called by the names; they learn inclusively with the other children.

                                               The pupils are for their class work exercise.

In all, the unit has twenty seven children who are boarding and others who do operate from their homes especially the partial visual blind. The school has thirteen teachers with two have specialized in special needs education.

The school is located in Moyo sub-county near the catholic mission parish.

The location seeks to find favour from good Samaritans who may be church goers and extend hands to these needy children who have poor background.

Prepared by:

Tamale Robert (one of the teacher at the unit of blind).