ECOWAS Strengthens Support For Blind Students In Thiès

ECOWAS Strengthens Support For Blind Students In Thiès

The ECOWAS Resident Representative successful Senegal, Her Excellency Mrs. Zelma Nobre Fassinou, has led a two-day moving sojourn to the National Institute for the Education and Training of Young Blind Persons (INEFJA) successful Thiès, aimed astatine boosting organization enactment done fiscal assistance from the West African Health Organisation (WAHO).

The visit, held from November 27–28, forms portion of a broader programme to amended learning conditions for visually impaired students. INEFJA presently accommodates 160 boarding students but faces shortages successful acquisition materials and nutrient supplies.

Discussions during the sessions, which included administrative authorities and the ECOWAS Club of Université Iba Der Thiam de Thiès, focused connected leveraging WAHO’s enactment to make a much enabling grooming environment. Plans were besides made to commemorate ECOWAS’s 50th Anniversary successful collaboration with section partners, highlighting the organisation’s relation successful assemblage development.

Stakeholders emphasized the value of supporting susceptible learners, peculiarly successful the discourse of the ECOWAS Golden Jubilee, to heighten acquisition and societal inclusion. The enactment programme involves aggregate partners, including authorities agencies, NGOs, educators, parents, and assemblage leaders known arsenic “Bajenu Gox.”

Mrs. Fassinou reaffirmed ECOWAS’s committedness to strengthening quality superior and promoting well-being, stressing that acquisition and societal enactment stay cardinal to the organisation’s agenda.