The ManicaPost
Tendai Gukutikwa
Post Correspondent
A LOCAL development partner that advocates for children with disabilities – Everyone’s Child – has called on Government to intervene and help with the construction of more disability-friendly schools in Mutare’s high density suburbs.
In an interview with The Manica Post, Everyone’s Child director, Ms Nyasha Mubaiwa, said: “Making such schools available in all high density suburbs ensures that every child has access to education.
“The challenge of proximity is the main reason parents are keeping these children in their homes and not enrolling them in schools. We pray that Government intervenes and hears our cries,” she said.
She said this on the sidelines of the organisation’s festive holidays donation held recently where children with disabilities received goodies.
One parent, Mrs Natsai Mushonga, said they were facing challenges in enrolling their children at the available schools, many of which do have facilities that cater for the children.
Ms Mubaiwa further encouraged well wishers to assist disabled children and desist from discriminating them whether in schools or communities.
