Agony school of deaf. Being the world’s marked International Deaf Awareness Day, learners at the Iten School for the Deaf are gazing at a gulf as government funding dries out.
It’s 11.34 am on Friday. Class Eight pupils are happy, eyes fixed on the mathematics teacher, Stanley Kaibei,.
Hosea Kemboi, a candidate at the school, takes up the duty of calculating the area of a triangle, a change that shows he was keen while his coach was demonstrating an example on the panel.
But, away from the schoolroom, the school is facing rough times after Ministry of Education levy funds dried out, exiting the school on its laps.
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Agony school of deaf, For the last two terms, the school with a population of seventy learners, has not received funds to support students.
Joseph Kipyengo, the schools headteacher said that in order to facilitate the even running of the institution, the school board of management has been required to seek donations from various, organisations, private businesses and institutions.
Kipyego said, we have inscribed to the community asking them to help us with firewood, food items, and other essentials, and this is what has kept the institute afloat.
However, he added that employees at the schools for the past 3-months have been contributing their services free.
The government funding for needy schools is based on the quantity of pupils despite the exclusive challenges, which come with learners living with disabilities.
Kipyengo says that in such organisations, apart from normal education, medical treatment is also factored in.
Agony for the school of deaf
He added that some parents with deaf learners sent their children to school on their own for terror of stigma. Some are avoiding the school management, and don’t want to recompense fees for their learners.
What is sad to letter is that according to Kipyego, most of the parentages don’t give importance to such learners. They instead preferring to pay fees for their other learners who don’t have disabilities, and end up throwing away those with disabilities in such schools and left at the compassion of teachers.
