00:00It's been about five years since the Best Prints Academy first opened its doors to students
00:11with disabilities.
00:12Today, four out of the 650 students here fall into this category.
00:19It's one of the few schools that has and continues to accept students with visual impairments
00:25like myself.
00:32Do you think that the education authority did the right thing by introducing an inclusive
00:37learning policy?
00:38Yes, I think it was a good idea.
00:40The reason I think so is after the blind school, they can finally come to real school and graduate
00:47high school, college, and have a normal life.
00:51Is there any challenges that you've encountered in this school that you'd like to share with
00:58us so far?
00:59Yes, Clarice.
01:00We, as visually impaired students in Liberia, we have many challenges, which include lack
01:08of scholarship, lack of electronic devices like computer, smartphone, which will enable
01:16us to do our assignments and also do our notes on time.
01:23And here in Liberia, blind students are not doing math because we are lack of the instrument
01:28that is used to do math.
01:30That's a lot.
01:31I mean, the challenges are so much.
01:34We do not have calculators for blind people, so we don't do math in Liberia here.
01:42I would like to have a parting comment from all of you.
01:46Let me first start with Cynthia, your parting comment.
01:49I would firstly like to make a recommendation to the Ministry of Education to provide the
01:54necessary equipment for blind people, their needs, their wants, and calculators to get
01:59accurate calculations and be great at math like us.
02:03I also want to say thanks to the government of Liberia for introducing an inclusive education
02:10for students with visual impairment.
02:13Thank you, Gladys, for giving me the opportunity to be on the Girls of New Program, and I want
02:20to say thanks to the Ministry of Education for introducing an inclusive learning policy
02:26for disability students.
02:29But I have one recommendation, that they will provide learning materials for disability
02:37students all across Liberia or all across the world to make their learning process easier.
02:45Thanks so much for being here.
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