Gov't to build over three hundred bungalows for teachers

Three hundred and forty four teachers bungalows are to be put up for teachers working in deprived areas. Of the number, majority of them will be allocated to teachers in special schools, especially blind teachers.

Ms Christine Churcher, Minister of Primary, Secondary and Girl-Child Education, disclosed this when opening the 32nd National Delegates Conference of the Ghana Blind Teachers Association in Accra. Ms Churcher also added that there were 12,000 children in Ghana with eye defects or low vision and that under an integrated education programme, blind and low vision children would be placed in regular basic schools in their communities and experienced teachers on the defects made to provide remedial teaching.

The Minister was full of praise for the blind teachers and the successes they have chalked. She said the government was giving education a holistic approach that included the needs of the blind teacher that they were very important partners in national development.

Mr Joseph Serebour, national president of the Ghana Blind Teachers Association, said the association had chalked some successes within the past two years in spite of the problems it faced. These, he said, included the admission of blind teachers to the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) and the acquisition of permanent offices of the association.