Pupils and teacher of Ephphatha School for Deaf in Bujumburapresent a classroom sketch at the launch of DDP’s report on deafchildren in Burundi

Disability anD DevelopMent partners• Disability rights

• Mental health self help groups

• Deaf children’s right to education

• Disabled children and girls’ education

• Disabled people’s livelihoods20

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BURUNDI

burundi – DDp’s report on

deaf children’s education and

communications needs What is it like to be a deaf child in Burundi or to bethe parent of a deaf child? What do deaf childrendream of doing? What is the government doing fordeaf children? ese are some of the questions weasked in a research project thatbegan nearly 4 years ago whenChris Kubwimana, a DeafBurundian, asked DDP for helpto set up aurora Deaf aid africa

(ADAA). ere are only 2 schools for

deaf children in Burundi, bothprivately run by churches andoffering only primary education. Just416 deaf children go to school in acountry with a population of over tenmillion. ousands of deaf childrenand youngsters have never been toschool but the government takes noresponsibility for deaf children’seducation.

Communication is at the heart of deafchildren’s education. Sign language in Burundi hasnot developed fully and needs to be standardised toreflect Burundian culture and tradition while beingmindful that Burundi is part of the newly formedlargely English speaking East African Community.ere is also an urgent need for more teachers andsupport staff for deaf children and for professionalssuch as sign language interpreters, of whom thereare only two in the country.

Our research project brought together for thefirst time deaf associations, schools, governmentrepresentatives and, above all, deaf children andtheir parents. We interviewed all 416 pupils in the2 schools and were not surprised to find they hadsimilar aspirations to any child of a similar age, to

complete their education and do something usefulin their lives.

e report ‘Deaf children in Burundi – theireducation and communication needs’ was launched inBurundi in October 2011. e recommendationssubmitted to the Ministry of Education call for statesupport for deaf children’s education, developmentof a Burundian Sign Language and the training ofmore teachers for deaf children. An English versionwas launched on 3rd December in London.

We are grateful to ADAA,Ecole Ephphatha pour lesSourds; Centre d’ EducationSpécialisée pour DeficièntsAuditifs (CESDA), and theBurundian NationalAssociation of the Deaf fortheir help in this project andtowards the next steps.

Funded by Comic Relief

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REPORTDeaf Children in Burundi – their educa�on and

communica�ons needs.

October 2011

DDP thanks in Burundi l’Ecole Ephphatha pour les Sourds,

Centre d’ Educa�on Specialisée pour Dèficients Audi�fs and

Associa�on Na�onale des Sourds du Burundi and in the UK,

Aurora Deaf Aid Africa, who contributed to this report.

(top) Deaf children at CESDA, Gitega are eager toget their message across; (bottom left) Members ofthe Burundi National Association of Deaf;(bottom right) Teacher Phoebe interviews pupilsfor the research project at Ecole Ephphatha pourles Sourds

ETHIOPIA

education and livelihoods for

Girls and Women (elGW),

Hawassa, ethiopia e 12 kebeles of Tulla sub-city in Hawassa formthe ELGW project area, where we are working withour partner Handicap national (HN) to improveeducation opportunities for girls, disabled childrenand other disadvantaged children and women whohave missed out on formal schooling.

A survey of 12,426 households gave us up-to-date information on numbers of disabled children,literacy/numeracy levels, livelihoods data andchildren enrolled in school which confirmed ourunderstanding that poverty is the main reasonchildren never go to school or drop out of school.

e whole community’s involvement isrequired to improve basic education levels andmake the school environment inclusive. HN usesthe Ethiopian tradition of coffee ceremonies to geta community conversation going where field staffand community members share their thoughts,ideas and concerns.

e ELGW’s 19 member field team hasreached out to communities and schools in everykebele, liaising with local administrators, education

offices, community organisations and women’sgroups to bring the message of education for allchildren and literacy/numeracy for adults who havemissed out on schooling. e team’s direct practicalwork can also make a big change, e.g. the buildingof separate school toilets for girls and womenteachers. ree village centres for ABE (AlternativeBasic Education) and FAL (Functional AdultLiteracy) have already been built with communitymembers providing the land and materials, andattending classes.

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(top) Community conversation and coffeeceremony, Chesafine kebele (above) Schoolchildren, Hawassa, Ethiopia

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e first recipients of seed money, 120 mothersof disabled children and women who have neverbeen to school, have already started small scale,mainly agricultural enterprises.

An initiative welcomed by the teacher trainingcollege in Hawassa will enable trainee teacherplacements in kebele schools where disabledchildren are enrolled so that they can get “hands on”special needs education experience.

Funded by Comic Relief

accessibility for all

HN’s resource and rehabilitation centre, a multi-purpose building in Addis Ababa, has become fullyaccessible, with a ramp to all three floors anddisabled friendly toilets. Services are continuing forall children currently registered at the centre,especially those suffering the effects of polio andwho need calliper replacements and physical

therapy. At weekends the building is fully used bychildren and youth groups to practise music anddrama.

Funded by Guernsey Overseas Aid Committee

(top) Primary classroom in Tulla sub city; (above) Women who have never been to schoollearn to read, write and count

CAPE VERDE

Candle makers of Cape verde

– an enterprise by disabled

people

e second phase of DDP’s project with aCD, CapeVerde’s disabled people’s association, was concludedwith the installation and operation of the candlemaking machine in new workshop premises. Asimple production line has been set up to make andpack commercial candles, alongside separate workstations where individually crafted decorativecandles are produced for special events and thetourist trade.

Eight disabled women and men are nowemployed in production, while a further 20disabled people earn some income selling thesecandles in various locations across the archipelago’smain island, Santiago. With new investment froma US Foundation and a glossy sales catalogue inpreparation, ACD hopes to make this initiative aprofitable enterprise for years to come.

Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid Commission

INDIA

Changing children’s lives in

Chamrajnagar

– a 5 year challenge

When DDP’s Education and LivelihoodOpportunities programme (ELO) with Mobility

india began, many parents in this relatively poordistrict of Karnataka State – especially parents ofdisabled children – did not send their children toschool. is situation has now been completelyreversed, with primary school enrolment risingfrom 74% to nearly 100%, and retention up from66% to 90%.

With the whole community sensitised aboutthe need for and value of education, governmentschool teachers rarely go absent: 95% attendance isnow the norm. Teachers have greater confidence inmeeting disabled children’s needs in the classroomand know that all children can and should beeducated. e project’s model Inclusive EducationResource Centre lends teaching and learningmaterials, games and toys to community educationcentres, parents, children and schools in the 76villages covered by the project.

While ELO cannot unpick millennia of socialstratification, it has provided “caste neutral spaces”– structured playtimes and annual summer camps –giving children freedom to express themselves andgain in confidence away from their parents.

Some 1,200 disabled adults and parents ofdisabled children joined 90 Self Help Groups(SHGs), continue their savings and loans activities,and also monitor and pay tutors in 35 communityeducation centres. SHG federations at GramPanchayat level have formed an autonomous apexbody that will support member SHGs.

More than 2,000 people in the project areabenefit from increased income for their families,through over £95,000 worth of small enterpriseloans given through SHGs and ELO’s 7 auto

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Lucia sells candles in Praia, Santiago Island

rickshaw co-operatives, which generate a healthyprofit while also publicising the project and itsachievements.

e strong relationships ELO has establishedwith government and financial institutions aresecuring the work’s long-term viability and an ELO-type project continues in the remaining 3 hoblis ofChamrajnagar Taluk. A collaborating partner, seva

in action, provided training for teachers and tutorsand produced two manuals, an inclusive educationmanual for grassroots workers and a book‘Understanding Inclusive Practices in Schools’ basedon India-wide research which supports theircampaign to get state education authorities tomainstream inclusion.

e ELO team (19 field workers and 35 CECtutors) led by Programme Manager, Anand S.N.,are continuing their excellent work in inclusiveeducation and strengthening the SHG Federationsin all 5 hoblis of Chamrajnagar Taluk.

Funded by the BIG Lottery Fund

When ELO began in 2006 there were norehabilitation services at all for disabled children oradults in Chamrajnagar but it was vital thatidentification, assessment, provision of mobilityaids and appliances, and referrals went hand inhand with education and livelihoods opportunitiesprogrammes. We had tremendous support from theMedicor Foundation for 3 years and then from thevitol Charitable Foundation in the final year ofELO to put in place these services. To begin with,Mobility India’s Bangalore rehabilitation teamprovided the support and service. At the same time10 rehabilitation therapists and orthotic technicianswere trained and today a team comprising 6 rehabtherapists and 3 orthotic technicians form part ofthe ELO programme’s legacy in Chamrajnagar bycontinuing rehabilitation services to over 2,000disabled children and others in the community whoseek their help. e tenth member of the team,Madesh from Chamrajnagar, is currently at

university studying a degree course in prostheticsand orthotics.

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(from top) Chiguru, the federation of 90 Self HelpGroups, works out its strategy; Homeward boundin the afternoon sun; Ganesh processing areca nutor supari in Kudluru

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elsewhere in india

Hostel for Disabled schoolboys,varanasi

Kiran Centre has been able to improve their hostelfor disabled boys in Varanasi city by extending andrefurbishing their existing building toaccommodate 6 more boys and create betterfacilities to be enjoyed by all 24 residents.Accommodation in the city hostel allows boys toprogress to secondary education in city schools after

‘graduating’ from Kiran’s inclusive elementaryschool, as well as boosting their chances of trainingand finding employment.

New funding in 2012 will enable Kiran to takerehabilitation services to villages that are far fromthe Centre so that disabled children can beidentified earlier, assessed and a rehabilitation plandevised for them. Special educators and grassrootsworkers will also be trained as part of this project.

Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid Commission

(top left) Joyful after-school activities at Doddarayapete village CEC; (top right) Children learn about silkwormcultivation in Chamrajnagar, once a leading silk producing region; (above left) Bhuvanashree gets physicaltherapy at home; (above right) In residence at schoolboys’ hostel, Varanasi

NEPAL

DpaC makes

headway in nepalContinuing delays by the NepaliGovernment to approve thecountry’s new constitution has notprevented Disabled People’sAdvocacy for Change (DPAC) –our programme with Disabled

Human rights Centre-nepal

(DHCR-Nepal) – making headwaytowards securing the inclusion ofdisabled people in all aspects of civilsociety in Nepal.

is year DHRC-Nepalfocussed on practical efforts tosecure disabled people’s access toeducation and employmentopportunities, and on defending disabled people,particularly women and children, against abuse andviolence. A current test case concerns a disabledwoman whose family has denied her rightful shareof the family property and kept her isolated in aremote village house.

Government schooling in Nepal is free inprinciple for disabled children and young people,but not yet always so in practice: DHRC-Nepalmakes local education authorities aware of theirobligations and encourages schools to provide amore inclusive and accessible environment.Training opportunities for young disability activistsare also provided directly through DHRC’sinternship scheme. Sanju, DHRC’s first intern, nowworks as secretary of her local disabled people’sorganisation, where she is also active in streettheatre.

Nepal’s 2011 census was the first opportunityto get up-to-date disability data – vital informationfor lobbying and advocacy campaigns. DHRC-Nepal’s team led a group monitoring the censusoperation to ensure it was inclusive and accessible.

Now full data is awaited. Most recently, DHRC-Nepal has launched a new national campaign tosecure the rights of severely/multiply-disabledpeople.

We welcomed DHRC-Nepal’s director,Maheshwar Ghimire, to London for a 2 weeksummer school at Chickenshed, London’s inclusivetheatre, where he learnt skills to lead DHRC’sdisability awareness street theatre groups.

Funded by UKAid – DFID

elsewhere in nepal

a mental health first

Matrika Devkota is the driving force of KOSHISH(which means ‘making an effort’ in Nepali) and hismission to get rid of the stigma that attaches tomental ill health through example and user ledcampaigns. Matrika has spoken openly on national

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Sanju performs in street play, Tanahu District

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TV about mis-diagnosis and theresulting wasted years. Later, withcorrect medical and therapeuticinterventions, he decided to take upthe challenge of giving sufferers avoice. With help on the ground fromDHRC-Nepal, we have providedtechnical and practical support forKOSHISH to pilot Nepal’s firstmental health drop-in centre wherepeople experiencing mental illnessand their families can come for dailycounselling and therapy sessions andbe helped in their long journeys backto mental health.

Funded by Jersey Overseas Aid Commission

(above) Matrika Devkota, founder of KOSHISH

DHrC-nepalrehabilitation Fund

We have continued to helpDHRC’s disabled staff teamto keep ‘on the road’ – quiteliterally – by providing asecond adapted ‘scootie’ forDHRC’s media team toensure they are first on thescene.

Supported by North SouthDevelopment Trust – DDP’stravel agents

(left) Ganesh heads outon the adapted scootie tocover a new story forDHRC's weekly RadioNepal slot

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In its third year, theIntegração programmecontinues to press fordisabled people’s inclusionin government policies andHIV & AIDS services –both HIV prevention andAIDS mitigation. In HIVprevention it is not oftenacknowledged that disabledpeople are vulnerable – amyth Integração and ourpartners, Miracles in

Mozambique, (MIM,youth led NGO) andaDeMo (the nationalassociation of disabledpeople) have helped todispel.

Disabled people weretrained to become HIV &AIDS trainers inmainstream NGOs andagencies so that disabledpeople’s needs are not forgotten. HIV & AIDSvoluntary counselling and testing centres have beenmade more accessible by the provision of Brailleinformation materials and sign language trainingfor staff at centres in Maputo and the widerdissemination of disability appropriate HIV &AIDS prevention and information materials in 11districts of Sofala and Maputo Provinces.

A survey among 4,000 disabled people wascarried out – the first on such a scale inMozambique – and found that 75% of disabledpeople could now tell the difference between HIVand AIDS. Only 16% knew this during the research

that led to Integração. Wefound also that nearly80% could name at leastone means of HIVtransmission, when at thebeginning of the projectonly 30% could do so.

e Mozambiquegovernment’s AIDSstrategic plan hasofficially acknowledgeddisabled people’svulnerability due partlyto advocacy by Integração.e lobbying ofgovernment officials tofulfil their commitmentscontinues. e plan iswidely publicised so thatdisabled people areinformed about HIV &AIDS policy and howthis may affect them.

Funded by the BIG Lottery Fund

livelihood opportunities

reach more disabled peopleOver 900 people in Maputo and Sofala provincesnow benefit from the livelihood opportunities andenterprise training for people with disabilities(LOPD) project. Our partner, aDeMo, hasselected disabled individuals who have the potentialto benefit from enterprise and skills training, andwith start up grants and materials have set up smallenterprises ranging from mobile phone top-up stalls

Mozambique may

have the 10th highest

HIV prevalence rate

in the world. It is

vitally important that

disabled people’s

particular needs and

vulnerabilities are not

ignored in the fight to

combat HIV & AIDS.

MOZAMBIQUE

Integração – Mainstreaming Disability in Mozambican Hiv

& aiDs policies and services

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to buying tools for cultivating their mashambas(allotments). All these activities have led toincreased family income and wellbeing.

e project co-ordinator in Maputo hasinitiated small co-operative ventures so thatresources can go further, whilst the Sofala co-ordinator, a young woman wheelchair user, hasbattled with mobility and transport limitations toreach disabled people in more remote districts andinclude them in mainstream government enterprisetraining initiatives.

Funded by Medicor Foundation

(above) Young disabled activists gathering for 3rd Dec rally; (right) Alima, LOPD's Maputocoordinator, with Maria who has started acellphone top up business

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Expenditure 2010-2011: £643,527

Programmes &Projects: £617,544 (96%)

Management &Administration: £16,748 (3%)

Fundraising &Publicity: £9,235 (1%)

Your help counts even more than ever this year, sothank you to everyone who has given money, helpor time to DDP and DDP partners over this lastyear. We are grateful to everyone who has givenmoney and time over this last year and particularthanks goes to:

BIG (the Big Lottery Fund), Comic Relief, Guernsey and JerseyOverseas Aid, Medicor Foundation,

UKAid (DFID), the Valentine CharitableTrust, Vitol Charitable Foundation and toindividual donors, charitable trusts,friends, volunteers and trustees.

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After-school speech therapy for Vishnuat Mudlamole CEC