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Learners and Staff at one of the ramps at one of the toilets
By Chimeno Azriel
Worth Noting:
- “We are happy to be part of this initiative of donating money for the construction of ramps and rails so that they make positive and environment condusive for their learners who havel disabilities at the School. ” said Mrs Marsh.
- ASPULL One House Community Centre has a group (Knit and Natter) which was established in 2018 and the group has been growing from strength to strength as they make items and sell them and the money they raise will go towatds various charities and other causes and Chedonje Primary School managed to get the help for the construction of the ramps and rails. ASPULL Centre is based in Wigan near Manchester.
- The Head of the School Mr Madekere and some of the School Staff at the Resource room with the Learners
The Helegwa Foundation’s philanthropic work continues as the Foundation once again donated money towards the construction of ramps and rails to a Zimbabwean School in Kadoma for easy access to the classrooms and toilets for learners with visual Impairments and physical disabilities at the school.
Chedonje Primary School a School which is in Mashonaland West in Zimbabwe received the money donated by CEE Helegwa Foundation and its friends ASPULL One House Community Centre( knit and Natter Group ) who pulled the resources and donated to the Rimuka based Primary School for the construction of ramps and rails for easy movement for their learners who have visual impairment and physical disabilities at the School. The donation was done virtually from their base in United Kingdom.
With the introduction of Inclusive education in schools by the Government of Zimbabwe, Chedonje Primary school has learners with disabilities with most of them being visually Impaired and Constance Seddon through Helegwa Foundation and its partners had to donate money for the construction of ramps and rails making the environment conducive for persons with disabilities.
Speaking to the CEO of the Foundation, Mrs Constance Seddon from her base in United Kingdom, she said she saw it fit to donate the money for the construction to the school which happens to be her friendly school and she has to track back to the roots and she is the friend to the School, the school needs to change its environment so that it becomes condusive for learners and people with disabilities .
“I now live here in UK but I just don’t forget my roots that is Zimbabwe especially in Kadoma where I grew up in and did my education and it prompted me to source the money from my partners ASPULL One House Community Centre and I want the school to meet the standard of accommodating persons with disabilities and learners so that they have access to the classrooms and toilets without any hustles.” said Constance. “Chedonje Primary School is my friend and they are practising inclusive education and they have learners with visual disabilities so they need to have buildings with condusive environment.” added Contance.
During the handover ceremony, ASPULL One House Community Centre spokesperson Mrs Kathleen Marsh said that the Centre was humbled and happy to be part of the group that is donating money to the School for the construction and thanked her other group members for supporting the intiative of constructing the ramps and rails.
“We are happy to be part of this initiative of donating money for the construction of ramps and rails so that they make positive and environment condusive for their learners who havel disabilities at the School. ” said Mrs Marsh.
ASPULL One House Community Centre has a group (Knit and Natter) which was established in 2018 and the group has been growing from strength to strength as they make items and sell them and the money they raise will go towatds various charities and other causes and Chedonje Primary School managed to get the help for the construction of the ramps and rails. ASPULL Centre is based in Wigan near Manchester.
The Head of the School Mr Madekere and some of the School Staff at the Resource room with the Learners
Receiving the donation, the Head of the School Mr Madekere Tigerenashe said the School had been blessed with the donation and thanked the philanthropic work by Helegwa Foundation and its partners for donating to the School and he said that they were going to work flat out to see to it that they constract the ramps and the disadvantaged learners will have easy access to the classrooms and the toilets.
“we are happy to receive this donation and we would like to thank our friend Mrs Seddon (CEE Helegwa Foundation) and her partners Knit and Natter for donating money for the construction of ramps and rails and that will make our learners who have disabilities to have easy access to their classroms and to the toilets and on behalf of the School Staff and School Development Committee we say thank you.” said Mr Madekere.
Also present to receive the donation was the School’s School Development Committee (SDC) led by its chairman Mr Jealous Mahachi who was also thrilled to receive the donation and pledge to do what is expected by the donors and construct the ramps that will change the life of the learners with disabilities.
CEE Helegwa Foundation is a privately funded and it runs a Charity which was set up in honour of Edmond and Euphrasia Helegwa who were the pillars in advocating for the rights, fairness and accommodation (inclusion) of learners with disabilities. According to the CEO of the Foundation Mrs Seddon, the Foundation embraces integration and inclusion of Visually Impaired learners and physically disabled learners into mainstream and that is what they are doing so that they fit well in the mainstream.
Recently, the Foundation also helped another disadvantaged learners in Gift Mankonhwe who had sent an appeal to the Foundation for his lessons and he got his donation much to his delight. “I would like to thank my philanthropist for helping me and I am blessed to have a giver of such nature and caliber and my life will never be the same again “.said Gift. At the time of going to press, the School had started constructing the ramps.
Constance recently attended the Black History Month at her base in UK and she said she was privileged to attend the function and she was proud to be a black person who has lived in two different Continents representing the black people. ” I am proud to be a black person and I also attended a function during Black History Month and I am proud that I managed to live in two different Continents and I live a normal life and I do whatever I do freely and I am happy to live a happy life not forgetting where I came from. ‘” said Constance.
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