The Bethany Society’s Phramer Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) unit has launched the “We Ring the Bell” campaign 2022 at a function held in Jyoti Sroat Inclusive School yesterday.
The campaign aims for inclusive education for children with disability and to create awareness about the importance of acceptance of the disabled in institutions. It also aims to voice out to the government about the problems and difficulties faced by such children.
CBID unit programme coordinator, Wanbait Tang said that children with disabilities also have the right to be in school like other normal students and schools only need to modify their infrastructure.
Tang said that the campaign focuses more on accessibility, acceptance and adaptation. Accessibility and infrastructure are certain barriers that lead to drop out among children with disability, she informed.
She also said that discrimination in schools and even in the society has also become a major problem.
The campaign was first started by the Lilian Foundation in the Netherlands in 2012.
Executive Director of Bethany Society, Carmo Noronha urged students to make a noise for those children who are not able to be in school, due to poverty, poor accessibility and connectivity and less inclusive schools for children with disabilities.
