Parents urged not to hide children with disabilities at home.

 Disability is not inability:Parents of Lutheran Church Special School following proceedings during this year institution's Friends days held on Friday.Parents have been urged not to hide their children with disabilities at home-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo.

By Dickson odhiambo.

June 16, 2017.

PARENTS having children with disabilities have been urged not to be hiding them at home without taking them to school.

Kisumu Central Sub-County Director of Education Charles Ang’iela says parent doing such a thing to their children with disabilities are doing a great disservice to them.

Speaking at Lutheran Church Special School during its Friends day occasion on Friday, the Sub-County Director of Education said parents should help in giving hopes to their children with disabilities by ensuring that they do not hide them at home

He says it is quite unfortunate that it has appeared in a section of the media across the country that some parents have been hiding their children with disabilities in some parts of the country.

The Officer has applauded parents who have taken the initiative of not hiding their children with disabilities and has taken them to school for some form of learning.

“I want to sincerely thank fellow parents who have gone a step further by ensuring that their children with disabilities are not hidden and taken school. This is a plus for such parents because they have shown that their children are also like others who needs to be well taken care of and taken to school,” the officer says.

He has urged parents and teachers to be very more comfortable with children with various disabilities.

Ang’iela also urged various special schools within the sub-County to consider making them more learners and children’s friendly so as to make the children with disabilities love the institutions.

“It would have been very prudent if the special schools are made more learner and children’s friendly as this will surely make the children with disabilities to love the institutions,” he adds.

Lutheran Church Special School Head Teacher Richard Omondi also echoes the same sentiments and has urged the parents to not hide their children with disabilities.

He says the school is very much in need of such children hence no need for parents to continue hiding them if at all there are still some parents doing so.

Omondi says one of the challenges that they have as a special school is the issue of inadequate classrooms.

He has thanked the Government profusely for availing the some funds for the school towards the construction of two new classrooms so as to be able to address the shortage of the classrooms within the institution.

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