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7:59 CAT | 18 Feb 2020
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ADPP Mozambique was awarded the “Innovative Practice 2020 on Inclusive Education and ICT” award by the international organisation called Zero Project with its “Inclusive Education Project”, in partnership with Light For the World and support from the Austrian Development Cooperation.
People to People Development Aid (ADPP), a non-governmental organisation operating in Mozambique, has won the international award “with its “Inclusive Education Project”, in partnership with Light For the World and support from the Austrian Development Cooperation,”it announced yesterday in a statement.
The project started with “the inclusion of visually impaired people in ADPP’s Teacher Training College (TTC) in Sofala, who later became role models in their communities,” the note from ADPP reads.
@adppmozambique ADPP was awarded the “Innovative Practice 2020 on Inclusive Education and ICT” award by the international organization called @ZeroProjectorg with our “Inclusive Education Project”, financed by @lftwworldwide. #InclusiveEducation
Read more: https://t.co/UPq2yloEhb— ADPP Mozambique (@adppmozambique) February 11, 2020
At the same time, the school “gained experience in innovative education and started working with coaches, students and the school community to promote the inclusion of children with disabilities”.
Primary school teachers are now trained on disability issues, allowing them to work with children with and without disabilities.
The ‘“Innovative Practice 2020 on Inclusive Education and ICT” prize was awarded by the Austrian Essl Foundation’s ‘Zero Project’ initiative, focusing on the rights of people with disabilities worldwide.
In 2019, the ADPP project covered a total of 1,174 students with special needs in schools in Sofala and Manica provinces in central Mozambique.
The Inclusive Education Project implemented by ADPP in partnership with Light for the World and funded with Austrian support, is on a list of 75 innovative practices and 11 award-winning innovative policies from 56 countries that support people with disabilities in the education sector.
ADPP was created in 1982, and operates in several countries with the aim of promoting the social and economic development of vulnerable people, with special attention to children, women and girls in rural areas.
Source: Lusa
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