Edoovillage #1796 - Cameroon, Bamenda: Sustainable Women for Development SWOD eV

TECHSMART KIDS : Addressing Mankon Native Language Literacy among Hearing and speech Impaired persons in Mankon council of Cameroon. A sustainable Inclusive pilot strategy for Persons with Disability. Techsmart kids inclusive pilot project bringing basic ICT know-how to internally displaced children in Mankon(Bamenda) as a remedial education tool amidst crises.

With the first project Sustaniable Women for Development e.V. is running addressing Mankon Native Language Literacy among Hearing and speech Impaired person in Mankon council of Bamenda (Cameroon): A sustainable inclusive pilot strategy for Disable persons , sponsored by Keeper of the Earth Foundation. As continuity and sustainability of the project.
SWOD e.V: intends to expand its literacy training by developing the capacity of children in basic computer skills annually through which they can gain knowledge especially at the time when schools are short down in the English speaking Cameroon due to the devastating crisis with most of the material already secured and the project ongoing. The beneficiaries are young boys and girls including children with without disabilities. Persons with Disabilities have consistently faced discrimination and disadvantage , which explains why 82% of disable
people live below the poverty line and comprise one of the largest single groups of excluded and chronically poor people in the world . the current approach towards persons with Disability by Government in Cameroon reflects. Medicalised, welfare and charitable approaches , rather than the recognition and protection of their right. More specifically people with disability face numerous challenges in enjoying full participation in all aspects of society using WHO/ITO/UNESCO community Based Rehabilitation guideline, people with disability lack access to mainstream economic , financial, and legal services , equal participation in community life , social services like education and health services which are generally inadequate for the general population, thus even more inaccessible for persons with disability . The direct beneficiaries of this project are children, women and men with hearing and speech impairment carefully selected from the 5 villages in the Mankon municipality.
Focus will also be on sign language teachers who will take center stage in the development of new community oriented curricula including proverbs , folktales and other frequently used
Limbum grammar that can serve the hearing and speech impaired, their families and caregivers. This encourages solidarity and making the local community fully inclusive .
Limbum literacy teachers as well as every Limbum speakers globally will also benefit from the inclusion materials which could be used by everyone. With the second project it is talking
more on the effect of the anglophone crisis in Cameroon leaving many children out of school.

This has very devastating effects as it hinders many children from benefiting in their rights to education and other facilities. SWOD e.V. in 2019 decided to involve these young girls,
children both with the disabilities into diversity activities , The Techsmart kids program geared towards. Giving the opportunity to have to have full capacity in computer and other
ICT tools so as to access education through the internet. To provide displaced, vulnerable and marginalized children with a remedial training on ICT . To promote child education rights by providing safe spaces for skills development through ICT. Ten(10) internally Displaced children have been carefully selected and their carers in the afore mentioned municipality at
the recruitment level, special attention is given to orphans and Vulnerable children as well as children who are persons with Disabilities . A two weeks training will be given to the
participants during the session . Our main challenge at the moment is acquiring laptops/tablets that will be able to simultaneously train beneficiaries and help them achieve their goals.
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