A visually impaired religious and moral education tutor at the Global Evangelical Presbyterian Junior High School in Adidome Madam Selase Nutsunugbe is embarking on a one woman demo in protest of the poor nature of the roads leading to school.
The protest has seen her boycott class and she has vowed not to step foot in the school until the school road is fixed.
According to Madam Nutsunugbe she has been suffered several accidents on the said road in an attempt to move from her residence to the school to do her job.
“I have made several calls to the district assembly to come to my aid and construct the road and make it accessible to persons leaving with disability but deaf ears have been paid to it over the years. “
“My kids are young and am not ready to die and leave them,” she lamented.
In addition to her struggles to access her school, the visually impaired teacher also lacks the materials she needs to make her work easier.
She told radiogoldlive.com she is forced to use part of her meager salary to print text books into brail for her use to enable her teach her pupils effectively, a situation she describes as a great worry to her and other visually impaired teachers.
Madam Nutsunugbe fears she would be forced to incur new cost from her meager salary because of the introduction of the new curriculum.
The visually impaired teacher is therefore calling on government to print the new curricular in brail so that teachers like her and their students would not lag behind.
Madam Nutsunugbe has however sworn not to return to the classroom until the school road is worked on.
She called on persons living with disability to come together to fight what she refer to as discrimination from “abled society” “who seem to pretend to have forgotten we existed to say never again”.
Story by: Christopher Pappoe
