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[AUSTRALIA] ALMOST $48 million of federal money to help children with disabilities in NSW schools will be spent on teacher training, the Premier, Barry O’Farrell, said.

The money is part of a $200 million program to improve resources for disabled students announced in the federal budget last year, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, said yesterday.

Under the agreement, which NSW is the first state to sign, the money can be spent on technical aids, teacher training or additional staff.

$48m to train teachers of disabled students

smh.com.au

[RWANDA] Currently, the ministry of education and Unicef fund 54 “child-friendly” schools across Rwanda, which also provide “best-practice” examples to other schools in their cluster areas. A 2009 Unicef report on the initiative indicates that they have assisted 7,500 disabled children. The government is aiming to expand the programme to 400 schools nationwide by 2012, and has also adopted it as the basic standard for all Rwanda’s primary schools. (via Rwanda makes gains in all-inclusive education | Society | Guardian Weekly)

[RWANDA] Currently, the ministry of education and Unicef fund 54 “child-friendly” schools across Rwanda, which also provide “best-practice” examples to other schools in their cluster areas. A 2009 Unicef report on the initiative indicates that they have assisted 7,500 disabled children. The government is aiming to expand the programme to 400 schools nationwide by 2012, and has also adopted it as the basic standard for all Rwanda’s primary schools. (via Rwanda makes gains in all-inclusive education | Society | Guardian Weekly)

Guardian

unicef:

Children with disabilities are routinely denied equal access to health, education and social services. They are also often excluded from opportunities to participate in their families and communities, and are at higher risk of violence and abuse.

UNICEF is collaborating with the Special Olympics to promote equal opportunities for these children and help them reach their full potential.

Watch this video to learn more.

 (by unicef)

What would you do with $3000 and the mandate to do something that benefits your community? Aliya Zholboldina, an alumna of the Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program, recently made use of the Muskie and UGRAD Alumni Small Grants program to design and implement an art therapy program for children with disabilities in Kazakhstan. The project brought professional art teachers from Almaty, Kazakhstan’s capitol, to an orphanage in nearby Talgar for a series of workshops held two times a week for six months. (via Art Therapy for Children with Disabilities in Kazakhstan | IREX)

What would you do with $3000 and the mandate to do something that benefits your community?

Aliya Zholboldina, an alumna of the Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program, recently made use of the Muskie and UGRAD Alumni Small Grants program to design and implement an art therapy program for children with disabilities in Kazakhstan. The project brought professional art teachers from Almaty, Kazakhstan’s capitol, to an orphanage in nearby Talgar for a series of workshops held two times a week for six months.

(via Art Therapy for Children with Disabilities in Kazakhstan | IREX)

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