Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Kabul: Officials of Technical and Vocational Education Department announced today (Thursday, Nov 14) in a press conference that was held in Kabul.
Maulvi Gholam Saeed Ehsaas, Vice President of Technical and Professional Affairs, Department of Technical and Vocational Education, stated that the Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway, the Government of West Java, Indonesia, international development partners - Afghanistan and Norway, the Indonesian University of Education in Bandung and the University Oslo in Norway participated in this symposium.
The deputy director of this department considered the main goal of this symposium to end the discrimination against disabled and disabled people and added that in this direction, the scientific community, education planners and partner organizations came together to identify challenges and provide practical solutions.
He added that in this symposium, various topics were discussed, including the inclusion of people with disabilities in development programs, the creation of a dictionary of inclusion and diversity, cooperation for the production and distribution of braille books for children and young people with visual disabilities, strengthening sign language and identifying and empowering disabled organizations.
Mr. Ehsaas emphasized that this symposium, in addition to people with disabilities and congenital disabilities, also includes people who were disabled and disabled in the country's wars.
At the same time, Taria Waterdal, the general head of the Norwegian Committee in Afghanistan, said that this institution is committed to print Braille books for disabled children, youth and teenagers, and cooperated with Afghanistan in the field of sign language enrichment, and added that the field of education and They will provide the entry of the disabled in the labor market.
It should be mentioned that the first South-South-North Symposium on inclusion and diversity in the education of disabled people was held on the initiative of the Norwegian Committee for Afghanistan.