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Inclusive Education through Inclusive Education centres.

Harmony Foundation has started an integrated campaign to “create an inclusive, barrier free and rights based environment for the Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). This campaign has two main components:

1.     Inclusive Education through Inclusive Education centres, teachers’ training, refresher course for teachers, parents counselling and educational material development

2.     Advocacy and mass awareness campaign through media outreach programs, public forums, lobbying and advocacy meetings with the parliamentarians and district government officials, theatre shows and media conferences

1. Inclusive Education:

The Inclusive Education Centre in Toba Tek Singh is just started and the children are being enrolled in the centre. The centre has two teachers who teach the students with inclusive education tools. The timing of the centre is from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon.
A teacher training Program was organized in Toba Tek Singh for selected thirty five teachers from the government schools and private schools. Twenty five teachers attended the training; the missing ten belonged to the government schools. The teachers who are the teachers in the primary schools attended the training program with the focus on inclusive education methodology and the child centred education.

Two Teachers’ Refresher Courses have been conducted with the teachers who attended the teachers’ training. The refresher courses focused on the issues that teachers raised after using the inclusive education tools in the schools. Most of the issues were concerned about communication with the disabled children in the class rooms. Most of the teachers when attended the training did not have disabled children in their class but after they attended the training, they surveyed in their area and enrolled the disabled children in their schools. The trainer facilitated the especially prepared exercises to convey the lessons and language to the disabled children.

Educational material is being prepared and different games, exercises, lessons, sports and tools for teaching of disabled children are being prepared. Most of the education material has been tested in the inclusive education centres and has been declared successful. A motivational video for the disabled children has been recorded and is being used in the inclusive education centre in Village 206 these days. The motivational video is a short video which convince the viewers to take action and we have discussed the video with the children and parents in the centre and they get a very clear message from the video. A CD of songs for teaching mathematics, Urdu, English, social and general knowledge and inclusive games is being prepared and hopefully will be ready by the end of this year. The video is also uploaded on YouTube and can be seen at
Three parents counselling meetings were arranged with the parents of the disabled children and normal children in Village 206 GB and Hasil Pur. The meeting in Village 206 GB focused on the creating inclusive environment in the centre and in the home. The parents shared the difficulties of keeping the disabled children at home and teaching them. The difficulties, most of them, were the reluctance of the parents to take responsibilities of keeping and teaching the disabled children. Teachers and Field Workers of Harmony Foundation gave suggestions and ideas on creating ease for the parents regarding disabled children at home.

Advocacy and Mass Awareness Program:

Advocacy and Mass Awareness program focuses the general public, policy makers, parliamentarians and opinion makers through activities that highlight the rights perspective of the position of the disabled people in the society. Harmony Foundation has focused on the issues of 

1.     Shelter

2.     Mobility

3.     Employment

4.     Social Recognition

5.     Education