Centre Polyvalent des Aveugles de Kegue (TGO-36)


Type: Health: Disability - Country: Togo

Brief description and main aims

This center is a primary school for kids with a visual handicap. The center hosts also students from the “collège” and “lycée” (secondary school) who are coming to the center after school to do their homework.

Main Activities

The main activities of the center include teaching and hosting children with a visual handicap. They are spending their whole day, and sometimes the whole week, at the center, where they go to school, eat, do the household, spent time with their friends etc.

Another activity is the afternoon “classes” with the older children who already attend secondary school. As the “collège” and the “lycée” are public school for children without a visual handicap, the center helps the children with a handicap to achieve their goals in class. 
 
In the afternoon, the kids can get help at the center if they had difficulties in class. As the teachers on the “collège” and “lycée” can't read Braille, the center sends assistants to schools who are transcribing and decoding the exams in Braille and Black. The center is the mediator between the children with a visual handicap and the children without handicaps.  

Volunteer tasks

The volunteer is taking the role of an assistant by learning Braille in the first weeks. After that, the volunteer is going to the “collège” or the “lycée” with the children. In the subjects where the children are having difficulties, the volunteer is advised to visit the class with the kids, to take notes, to be able to explain in the afternoon, what the teacher did in class. In the afternoon, the volunteer is meeting the students from “collège” and “lycée” in the library of the center, to help them whenever they've got difficulties in class.

 

Volunteer requirements / Skills

  • Motivated to work with children
  • Able to work independently and show enthusiasm
  • Able to adapt, show inititaive and creativity
  • Have patience

Location

Centre Polyvalent des Aveugles de Kegue is located in Lomé.

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