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| Our First Ten Years! Newsletter No 29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Our First Ten Years • Recuperative Holidays • Neman Holiday Camp • Zhuravichi Boarding Home |
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| Special Class at School No 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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THIS is a wonderful Special Needs School in Gomel which we have supported for several years. When the Education department expressed an interest in trying to integrate more physically disabled children into school we decided that School No 5 would be the best place to start. We brought the Head Teacher on an educational visit to Britain; persuaded the health department to pay for a neurologist to act as consultant for all the children in the school; put in ramps, disabled toilets, doors and carpets; sent out a minibus, which was bought for us by the Celebrities Guild of Great Britain; and we fund the driver and a classroom assistant. In September 2004 a small class was set up for five children in wheelchairs who have already made great strides in their development. We hope later to be able to put access into other parts of the school so that children in wheelchairs can be fully integrated.
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