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Teachers of the visually impaired students have asked government to allocate funds for purchase of software used to teach blind students information technology and enabling them learn computer. This was demanded as Standard Chartered bank was donating to Sir Apollo Kagwa secondary school, Seeta Nazigo in Mukono district, computers, printers and software used in computers to enable students with visual impairment learn computer so as they sit examinations.
The headmaster of Sir Apollo Kagwa secondary school, Deogratius Wadimba, said that many blind students have been missing doing computer examinations due to lack of computer software which facilitate blind students to use computers. He said that although it is a government policy that computer learning is compulsory in all schools, the blind students are still left out due to absence of the computer software they can use to learn computers and sit examinations. He pleaded for provision of braille papers and books for the blind students.
The Corporate Affairs officer with Standard Chartered bank in charge of inclusion and diversity, Deus Turatemba, urged government to give much attention to software which embrace inclusion of the blind student in learning.