Blind Society Gets 18 Million Cedis Worth Of Equipments

Accra, (Greater Accra) 29 Oct. Educational materials worth over 8,000 dollars(about 18 million cedis) were on Monday presented to the Ghana Society for the Blind by the Ghana chapter of African Poverty Eradication Commission (APEC). The materials made up of Readers Digest, Bibles, English, Mathematics, Physics and Science, Music, Dictionaries, typewriter Manuals and materials are all in Braille and large prints. They were gifts from some individuals and organizations in the United States for the training of visually impaired students of the Society. APEC Ghana is a subsidiary of APEC International, a non- governmental organization with its headquarters in Los Angeles, United States. Major Adolf N. Clerk(Rtd), Director of the Ghana Chapter of APEC, hoped the materials would enhance the education of the blind. Mrs Victoria D. Bonsu, Executive Director of the society, said it would take advantage of the materials to organize workshops for the teaching of Mathematics and other subjects for the benefit of blind students in secondary schools. ''These equipment are desperately needed because the blind should not be left behind in the educational development of the nation,'' she added. Mrs Bonsu appealed to APEC to help the society procure modern equipment like Braille in print, Dictaphones and computers with adequate software for the use of the blind and visually impaired.