A STAR PROJECTVenue: District Secretariat hall Abbottabad
Dated: Nov. 16th, 2009
Project on the Promotion of Social Participation of Persons With Disabilities
Meeting on Campaign of Awareness Raising Among Teachers and Students
(CARATS)
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Agenda of today’s meeting
Information Sharing about A STAR ProjectPurpose of the ProjectActivities of the Project
CARATS: Campaign of Awareness Rising Among Teachers And Students
Situation in AbbottabadMr. Nasir’s experienceSituation in JapanMs. Safia’s experiencePakistan Govt. PolicyMs. Maria’s experienceMr. Hafiz’s experience
Discussion Point
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Information Sharing about A STAR Project
Purpose of the Project.Activities of the Project.
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Awareness Raising Activities
in A STAR Project
Drawing Competition“Peace”(Jul. 17th, 2009)
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Scavenging with children with disabilities (Oct 6th, 2009)
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National day celebration at Special Education Centre (Aug 14th, 2009)
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District Sports Festival for Special People(Jun. 13, 2009)
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Campaign of Awareness Rising Among Teachers And Students (CARATS)
Background, Situation and ProblemSituation in AbbottabadMr. Nasir’s experienceSituation in JapanMs. Safia’s experiencePakistan Govt. PolicyMs. Maria’s experienceMr. Hafiz’s experience
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Situation in Abbottabad
How many children with disabilities in schoolCWDs in Special SchoolCWDs in Ordinal School
PrejudiceNon-Disabled People think…Children with Disabilities think…
Our Experience 1: Mr. Nasir
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Situation in Japan
Compulsory Education (Law)Mentioned about Children with intellectual disabilities, 1979
Special, but Exclusive Education (Approach)Visually: 71 schools, Hearing: 104 schools,Physically: 197 schools, Intellectually: 543 schoolsSickly: 91 schools Total: 1,006 schools
Where do CWDs learn? (Situation)Special need education school: 60,000 CWDs (0.56%)Special need class
at Special need education school: 45,000 CWDs (0.42%)at Ordinal school: 124,000 CWDs (1.15%)
Our Experience 2: Ms. Safia
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Government PolicyConstitution(1973)
Article-37. The state shall:
“Promote, with special care, the educational and economic interests of backward classes or areas”
Compulsory EducationNational Ordinance for Compulsory Primary Education(Draft)
in Education Sector Reforms, Action Plan 2000-2003
“Only mentioned about sickly children, not CWDs”
National Plan of Action(2006), National Policy for PWDs 6. Promoting Inclusive Education for children with Special Education Needs
Goal: “Inclusive Educational opportunities are available to large number of children with moderate and mild level disabilities from kindergarten to class 10 in cost effective ways.”
Our Experience 3: Ms. Maria
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Our Experience 4: Mr. Hafeez
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Campaign of Awareness Rising Among Teachers And Students (CARATS)
PurposeTo promote the inclusive education
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Activity1. To make a program and plan of campaign in
collaboration with ten schools, selected both in public and private sectors.
2. To implement the preparatory campaign of awareness raising among children and students at ten selected schools.
3. To revise a program and plan of campaign4. To extend the campaign to other schools
Discussion PointsSchool visit programme on Nov. & Dec., 2009
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Date School name for campaign
Date School name
for campaign
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21 Sat 5
22 Sun 6
23 Mon 7
24 Tue 8
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27 Fri 11
28 Sat 12
29 Sun 13
30 Mon 14
1 Tue 15
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