Education
for disabled children
Ground
breaking Ceremony
School for the deaf in My Tho , Tien Giang
On 17 October 2006
in My Tho (Tien Giang), more than one hundred local
authorities, local newspapers and television came to
the ground breaking ceremony of the construction of
the centre for deaf children. Madame Antonia Rollwage
from the German Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City
and Mrs. Yvonne Lo, HR Manager of Nippon Paint (Vietnam)
had a speech in the ceremony on behalf of the project
sponsors
Madamme Antonia Rollwage from German Consulate General
in Ho Chi Minh City had a speech in the ceremony
The total building
cost is USD180,000 with two major funders from Germany:
Children For a Better World and The
Bavarian Teachers’ Association. Other
co-sponsors include Vina Kyoei Steel,
Southern Steel Company, Quang Hoa Electric Wire
& Cable, Johnson & Johnson, Nippon Paint (Vietnam)
and Asia Paint (Vietnam), Taicera Enterprise Co.
The school is expected
to open in April 2007. All the teachers and the students
can now look forward to the date when they move to the
new school.
More about the project
Tien Giang province
is in the north of Mekong Delta. The total area is
2,239 square kilometers with a population of 1,673,000.
My Tho is the provincial capital of Tien Giang, 72
km from Ho Chi Minh City, approximately 2 hours drive.
Saigon Children’s Charity (SCC) has agreed with
the People’s Committee of Tien Giang to develop
a Centre for Hearing-Impaired Children.
The current centre
for deaf children in Tien Giang locates in a Pagoda
where it has been lodged temporarily since 1996. SCC
has agreed to develop this centre with more facilities
to help these disabled children.
The centre will provide
a service for testing of children’s hearing, the
diagnosis of their hearing impairment, the implementation
of remedial measures and for the education and training
of children and their parents. The centre will become
the focus for early intervention – the diagnosis
and treatment of pre-school aged children – for
the whole province.
This process will
take many years to fulfil so it is important to provide
training and care for older children. Therefore the
school will provide a standard education and develop
vocational training for the older students. As a part
of the vocational training, the school will set up and
develop relationships with local employers who are willing
to employ deaf people and willing to get involved in
their training. |
