CAMP FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AND THEIR PARENTS IN GAKENKE DISTRICT
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from 17th up to 27th January 2017 NDSD welcomed guest from England (UK)
it was lucky to have a guest Prof. Wendy Mccracken form England (UK) she spend two weeks, with teachers and other NDSD staff for teaching them the methods of teaching by using sign language books also she has teaches most of staff the use of Audiometer she spend also more time with deaf children by showing them some pictures drawn in books and teach them to draw. NYABIHU DEMONSTRATION SCHOOOL FOR THE DEAF(NDSD) have been benefited more dueling this visit for Prof. Wendy and she said that there is a big Improvement at NDSD when you look the children they are very happy and interesting in leaning, it looks like the future is better to this children, but also NDSD still have a long way for helping this Deaf children. she has brought some materials for using at NDSD these are like Audiometer, laminate and books that will be used by teacher, and we hope this will make a big impact in our community of people with Disabilities, NDSD are still finding a better solution to Rwanda community a specially to Deaf children most of them they have poor families we empower deaf children after realizing that deaf children can lean like others children who don't have any Disabilities . we appreciate the work done by our Partners Thank you to chance for childhood and Prof. Wendy Mccracken for this contribution. posted by Rugabire Seth. |
Prof. Wendy Teaching NDSD staff
how to use Audiometer
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Prof. Wendy teaching NDSD staff how to know level of Deaf children
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Parents in Training
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Louis is explaining a mother of Deaf child on how to communicate with deaf people.
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Milton with children
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Milton and his Family Observing a lesson in our P1 class
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Thank You Milton for giving our children so much time and Joy
Anna Mai,Innocent and Louis preparing to hand over a gift to Milton Family
Many thanks to Caroline and Amelia Kate for the gifts,and time
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as always a good visit at Nyabihu has to end with a good Dance as well!!
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The second visit was on Friday 11th of this Month when Members of the National Parliament(Chamber of Deputies) Visited our center and our activities they are from the Community development commission they were accompanied by Nyabihu District leaders including the Mayor and the vice Mayor in charge of Economic affairs we are very fortunate to have had a good occasion of being visited by such Important people from the National level as they also Promised to advocate more for our Center and the people with Disabilities in General the District leaders also Promised us of a stronger and more fruitful Partnership.
Louis(ECD Executive Director) Welcoming the Members of Parliament at our Center
First Right:Antoine Mugwiza Vice Mayor in Charge of economic affairs Nyabihu District,Members of Parliament,standing is Ngabo Amiel the President of the Community development Commission in the parliament(Chamber of deputies)
They visited our vocational class
they also visited our ICT room
We thank all our visitors and invite everyone Interested to visit our work!You are always welcome.
WE won Again!!!!
AN AFRICAN CHILD HAS THE RIGHT TO LEISURE AND SPORTS
The entire Africa celebrates the International Day of African Child on 16 June every year. This is done purposely to raise the awareness of the rights of African Children. It was to mark that occasion the National Deaf Sports Committee (NDSCO) organized volley ball and basketball tournaments which took place at AMAHORO National stadium of Rwanda ; as the way of celebrating this day in the year 2016.
The triumphant Nyabihu Volleyball team with their coaches.
NPC and NDSCO leaders were present and opened the tournament officially. In the Volley ball competition, there were three teams - Nyabihu Demonstration Centre for the Deaf (NDCD), CJSM Butare and VISION Deaf Nyarugenge. Among these three teams NDCD has won the trophy.
In the basketball competition, there were also three teams - HVP-Gatagara/Nyanza, Institut Philippe Smaldone/Nyarugenge and Maison d’Accueil l’Esperance /Rulindo. In this competition, HVP-Gatagara/ Nyanza won the trophy.
The officials presented the trophies to these both teams.
Sports play a paramount role in many ways. It helps to build and maintain healthy bones, muscles, and joints; helps to control weight and reduce fat; and prevents or delays the development of high blood pressure. African children should be able to access Sports activities, just like children in other countries. And we also know that physical fitness is strongly linked to improved academic achievements.
Thus, Physical activity, and sports positively affect aspects of personal development among young people, such as self-esteem, goal-setting, and leadership. Therefore, it should be a must that each and every African child be assisted by his/her parents teachers or guardians in his/her physical, social, cognitive and educational growth and improvement through physical activities and this should be an African routine.
In the basketball competition, there were also three teams - HVP-Gatagara/Nyanza, Institut Philippe Smaldone/Nyarugenge and Maison d’Accueil l’Esperance /Rulindo. In this competition, HVP-Gatagara/ Nyanza won the trophy.
The officials presented the trophies to these both teams.
Sports play a paramount role in many ways. It helps to build and maintain healthy bones, muscles, and joints; helps to control weight and reduce fat; and prevents or delays the development of high blood pressure. African children should be able to access Sports activities, just like children in other countries. And we also know that physical fitness is strongly linked to improved academic achievements.
Thus, Physical activity, and sports positively affect aspects of personal development among young people, such as self-esteem, goal-setting, and leadership. Therefore, it should be a must that each and every African child be assisted by his/her parents teachers or guardians in his/her physical, social, cognitive and educational growth and improvement through physical activities and this should be an African routine.
We WON!!! Using the computers that Isobel had sent to us from England over the last two years, Louis was able to enter the TIGO competition. It is an ICT competition to help disadvantaged people out of poverty by increasing their ICT skills. With the money, we have been able to buy new laptops, employ an ICT teacher and build computer stations.
The new Centre
Because of the generosity of one local man, the land for the new centre is now twice as big as the original plot. Its needs to be too, as the school now has 130 children, not the 60 or 70 we had when the idea of a new build was first taken seriously.
Here is Louis standing in the middle of the new enlarged piece of land.
We now have about a third of the money needed to build the whole new Centre. It is very exciting, and we have an English architect who has drawn up the plans. We are in the process of selecting a local construction company - and soon we will actually see the spades at work on our plot!
Because of the generosity of one local man, the land for the new centre is now twice as big as the original plot. Its needs to be too, as the school now has 130 children, not the 60 or 70 we had when the idea of a new build was first taken seriously.
Here is Louis standing in the middle of the new enlarged piece of land.
We now have about a third of the money needed to build the whole new Centre. It is very exciting, and we have an English architect who has drawn up the plans. We are in the process of selecting a local construction company - and soon we will actually see the spades at work on our plot!
Here are the new children whom we have welcomed to out Centre this term with some of their teachers. They are wearing their smart new uniform, made at the Centre for them.
- Since April 2015, our Center is now a partner with Chance for Childhood an English charity working in Rwanda to help children with hearing impairments.To summarise, this is what they are helping us with:
- Topping up our ordinary budget, for example: helping us with rent costs, food expenses, and teachers salaries.
- Funding 2 new teachers and a Head Teacher as well as giving a salary to the Director of the centre
- And guess this one!!! They have enabled us to enrol 54 new children to our center. These children were identified by C4C in their project called Empowerment, Equity, and Education(EEE), which aims to identify children in specific rural areas of Rwanda who have significant hearing loss and are not in school. So as a partner organization, we will benefit from the EEE work by having these newly identified children. We were very excited to accept the responsibility to care for this large number of children, who without us would have no access to education or communication development. Our Centre has now grown in number to 130 children.
We continue to appreciate the funding which we have from an English Rotary Club and the Rotary Club of Kigali which will pays for two teachers. The qualified teachers that wa employed are working well and have become experienced in teaching deaf children. This means that our Centre can continue to develop and improve, both in the facilities we can offer these children and in improved quality of education.
Football News!
Germaine and Dorcus in their new Kits. They say, ‘Thank you’.
25/feb/2015: Deaf sports day
On this day in partnership with Chance for Childhood ,VSO(voluntary service overseas ) and NPC(National Paralympic committee ) they had organized a Deaf sports day simply because deaf people don’t attend any Paralympic games
So our Center was Invited along with seven others, to take part in the games. We had 3 weeks to prepare for the competition.
The event was to take place at the Amahoro National stadium in Kigali. We travelled from Nyabihu on the morning of the competition, and should have been very tired because it was a 125kms journey, but we were very ecited. When we arrived we had a warm up of around 30 minutes
On this day in partnership with Chance for Childhood ,VSO(voluntary service overseas ) and NPC(National Paralympic committee ) they had organized a Deaf sports day simply because deaf people don’t attend any Paralympic games
So our Center was Invited along with seven others, to take part in the games. We had 3 weeks to prepare for the competition.
The event was to take place at the Amahoro National stadium in Kigali. We travelled from Nyabihu on the morning of the competition, and should have been very tired because it was a 125kms journey, but we were very ecited. When we arrived we had a warm up of around 30 minutes
Our players in a warm up session
As soon as everyone arrived we started a very successful sports day. because in brief we went back home with the Athletic's Trophy as the team who have won most gold medals in running, four gold medals, and three silvers. As well as this, in the football we came home as runners up with each of our players receiving a silver medal, as you can see in the pictures
We were very smart in our newly donated kits. It seems like they came with luck!!because we were obviously the best performers andlooked very smart as well