Project launched for quality education of disable children

Staff Reporter :
The project has been launched aiming to improve educational outcomes and provide equal access to education for children with disabilities, particularly those with complex and multiple disabilities, both those in school and out of school.
Sightsavers, ADD International Bangladesh, and Sense International jointly launched the project named ‘Education for Children with Disabilities’ under the Task Order 45 of the FCDO-funded Disability Inclusive Programme at a city hotel on Wednesday.
Shah Rezwan Hayat, Director General of the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) attended the event as chief guest, while M Abdul Salam, Chief Executive of Gana Unnayan Kendra, presiding over.
Shah Rezwan Hayat said, “The government is committed to ensure inclusive education in the country and many initiatives have been taken to enroll students with disabilities in the primary schools. However, there is a greater need for government and non-government collaboration to strengthen the system and achieve even better results.”
Sightsavers Bangladesh country director Amrita Rejina Rozario said, “The outbreak of COVID-19 has left severe impact on the education of children with disabilities as schools have been closed for nearly two years from March 2020 until February 2022, with only brief intermittent periods of reopening for certain groups.”
Mohammad Kamrul Islam Chowdhury, Director (administration) of Department of Social Services, S M Zahidul Hassan, Deputy Director of National Foundation of Development of the Disabled Persons (JPUF), Ghulam Faruq Hamim, Head of programmes at ADD International and AHM Noman Khan, Executive Director of Centre for Disability in Development, among others, spoke on the occasion.