service Details

Education

• Workshops and training provide educational workshops for both children/youngsters with disabilities and the wider community to raise awareness and understanding. 
• Resource development, Create accessible educational materials on children/youngsters rights and resources available in the community.
	
	PROBLEMS FACED BY CHILDREN/YOUNGSTERS WITH DISABILITIES 
1. Challenges of limited access to education.
2. Challenges to access health and social inclusion.
3. Challenges to access employment due to lack skills.
4. Discrimination and Stigma.
5. Challenges to access to skills

• The Salve Regina supports the children with disability in education from day care, preschools, primary and secondary school up to university (1st Degree) for those who can follow government educational curriculum.
• In this area of education there children who attend inclusion pre and primary school, some attend integrated primary schools and some attend special primary schools due to their disabilities. Some of our children/youngsters reach in secondary level and university level.
• In education we support them in school fees, meal at schools, school uniforms and stationary materials. Also we support transportation costs to and from school, learning materials and accommodation. Furthermore we support staffs transport to visit the children at schools to check their progress in general including academic issues. 
• Also we support the families or caretaker to visit their children at school. A part from that we enabling the infrastructure related to education where child leave or school by renovating, adjust means of transport and building. We provide training to parents and youngsters related to education and awareness to raising the parents/caregivers on the importance of education to children/youngsters with disabilities.
• We provide advocacy support and lobby at institutions related policy on education. This we do the helmet, village, ward, district, regional and national level.