Are you aware that in Liberia, visually impaired pupils don't learn math? Are the needs of blind students met in schools in your country? Our Liberian GirlZ Off Mute teen reporter, Gladys Gorwor, who is visually impaired, spoke to her classmates to discover how inclusion helps learners with disabilities. #GirlZOffMute #DWAfrica #77Percent
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00:00It's been about five years since the Best Prints Academy first opened its doors to students
00:11with disabilities.
00:12Today, four out of the 650 students here fall into this category.
00:19It's one of the few schools that has and continues to accept students with visual impairments
00:25like myself.
00:32Do you think that the education authority did the right thing by introducing an inclusive
00:37learning policy?
00:38Yes, I think it was a good idea.
00:40The reason I think so is after the blind school, they can finally come to real school and graduate
00:47high school, college, and have a normal life.
00:51Is there any challenges that you've encountered in this school that you'd like to share with
00:58us so far?
00:59Yes, Clarice.
01:00We, as visually impaired students in Liberia, we have many challenges, which include lack
01:08of scholarship, lack of electronic devices like computer, smartphone, which will enable
01:16us to do our assignments and also do our notes on time.
01:23And here in Liberia, blind students are not doing math because we are lack of the instrument
01:28that is used to do math.
01:30That's a lot.
01:31I mean, the challenges are so much.
01:34We do not have calculators for blind people, so we don't do math in Liberia here.
01:42I would like to have a parting comment from all of you.
01:46Let me first start with Cynthia, your parting comment.
01:49I would firstly like to make a recommendation to the Ministry of Education to provide the
01:54necessary equipment for blind people, their needs, their wants, and calculators to get
01:59accurate calculations and be great at math like us.
02:03I also want to say thanks to the government of Liberia for introducing an inclusive education
02:10for students with visual impairment.
02:13Thank you, Gladys, for giving me the opportunity to be on the Girls of New Program, and I want
02:20to say thanks to the Ministry of Education for introducing an inclusive learning policy
02:26for disability students.
02:29But I have one recommendation, that they will provide learning materials for disability
02:37students all across Liberia or all across the world to make their learning process easier.
02:45Thanks so much for being here.