Advocates of rights of people with disabilities say they will provide recommendations on some of the gaps in the Malawi National Education Policy as government is set to review the program.
In 2017, government developed the policy on Inclusive Education, which is a Strategy linked to the Sustainable Development Goal number four (4) that commits all governments to implement an inclusive, equitable and quality education and lifelong learning for all.
In an interview, Martha Mumba Program coordinator for Visual Hearing Impairment Membership Association of Malawi, VIHEMA said even though the policy is concluding this year it did not benefit deaf blind learners even though it aims towards inclusive education, which enables all children and young people to learn together in the same environment without discrimination.
According to Mumba, VIHEMA has now received a grant of 32,000 dollars that will help the organization in making recommendations on the gaps that government needs to look into when it start reviewing this policy.
And the partners that are working with VIHEMA on the recommendations, Dr Enoch Chilemba rights clinic coordinator at the University of Malawi said they will provide technical support by engaging government together with the learners and see how best these gaps can be addressed.
