North-Eastern Diocese

When someone comes in contact with a blind person, many thoughts run through their head as to how blind people get their daily lives. You might be wondering, how that can be true. But the answer to that is that through blindness, people have come to the realization that even though physical eyes don't see, one can still see with eyes of his/her heart. When it comes to the challenges and struggles of being blind, there have been many, but one way or another they have been able to overcome them. All through primary school years people assumed that being blind would hinder from getting a good education, much less going to the Universities.

There is a growing awareness among communities that the education which blind children are receiving is helping them. They are receiving a quality education which can prepare them to compete in the high demanding techno-economy and society of the 21st Century.

North Eastern Diocese- ELCT through Irente School for the Blind insures that blind children have the opportunity to become capable in the alternative techniques coping with blindness; they should develop constructive attitudes, and be given a quality education. Through efforts undertaken there are some problems which we wished to address as follows to compete successfully.

Irente School for the Blind needs, Renovation of Dormitories and Staff houses, cultivation of 10 acres out of the 50 for food crops, computers installed with dolphin pin, Academic books and teaching aids, Boys Dormitory and Secondary for inclusive education from I to IV.

Finally, we were all too aware of the appalling failure of the teacher training programs to sufficiently prepare their students to teach blind children. Even more important in preparing student teachers to work with blind children in the classroom.

However availability of quality field placements for students in training is a truly serious problem but now Sebastian Kolowa University College (SEKUCo) has such training is available. It will not fate these students to go into the classroom and deliver the same miserable educational services that blind children where receiving.

The above lists of problems demand a response. Together with these there are some excellent prospects to improve the education of blind children which now present themselves.