Africa-Press – Cape verde. The delegation of the Association for the Visually Impaired of Cape Verde – Adevic, in São Vicente, today received a set of equipment, valued at around 800 contos, to feed the Literacy School project, in Braille, whose classes started in March.
Fazem parte desses equipamentos pautas para escrita braille, seis máquinas Parking Braille, um projector, três computadores portáteis, um leitor autónomo, 30 lentes graduadas e bengalas brancas.
According to Inforpress, in information collected from the Delegate of Adevic, Luís Silva, the donation was made by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“They are very useful, considering that we have already started to teach these classes and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints project has been a great help to us, considering that we have been acquiring some equipment that would be difficult to buy if we didn’t have this partner”, he considered.
Realization of a “dream”
“Right now we still have a technician who teaches both writing and reading and we have six students, three in the morning and three in the afternoon, because he thinks he won’t be able to have more students because he has to pay attention to everyone”, advanced the same source, indicating that the students are people “already of a certain age, there are others with the old 6th grade and who lost their sight and still others aged between 17 and 18 and who had already given up on the national system a long time ago education”.
For Luís Silva, the arrival of this equipment is the beginning of the realization of a dream cherished since the creation of the Adevic delegation.
Delegate wants to have more students next school year
“Our ambition was to have a space to occupy our members, not to compete with the national education system. We want to give them some meaning to life, occupying them with various learning activities from orientation and mobility, daily visits among other activities”, he concluded, stating that in the next academic year the perspective is to have more students.
“Deep down, when we approach them, they say that at their age they can no longer learn anything, but we have evidence of a student here who can already decode the alphabet in reading and writing”, he concluded, despite highlighting the difficulties of some in having the availability of family members to accompany them to class.
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