[Blind-international-students] The necessaty to redefine the cecity in Egypt.

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Thank you for sharing your experience as it teaches many of us out here interested in learning about programs and resources available to persons with disabilities in other countries. 

it starts with one...


> On Mar 9, 2014, at 3:29 PM, "Mostafa" <mostafa.almahdy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Greetings.
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> Some of you may have heard about my story regarding me teaching a blind kid at a private school, and the fact that she was dragged with children who developed severe mental disabilities.
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> I was sacked because I stood by the side of the mother, whilst she wanted to move her daughter from this abnormal environment.
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>   The story continues that the parents called me, and they unfeignedly  thanked me for speaking out.
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> I told them that this was my duty to do what I have done.
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> They decided to move the girl from that school, and we are now touring different schools seeking for the best.
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> I assume that most of you have no specific knowledge about the educational situations for the blind in Egypt.
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> Well in this post, I am willing to give you some impression about what is it like for blind people here.
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> Unfortunately, it is not so good.
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> There are many schools for the blind here in Egypt, they are funded by the public education ministry and of course, that makes it even worse.
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> There is only a one school for blind girls, it is called the light and hope school for blind girls, it is associated with the local light and hope foundation for the blind, and it is not  far from where I live.
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> I visited the school twice, it is better than nothing but still, it is not the best in my humble opinion.
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> In the public education system, blind students are not accepted in any regular schools rather than the ones made for them.
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> This is a striking fact, and I am quite sure about it.
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> Anyway, that is regarding the mainstream peer.
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> What is now left is the public education sector.
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> It is not better to be quite fair.
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> Blind students are classified as mentally disabled, and they are forcefully dragged with severe mental disabilities.
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> This is something I have experienced myself.
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> This is why I was asked to leave the school I worked for, because I basicly refused to stay silent.
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> I did not comply to the preposterous regulations of the school, and I insisted to move the blind kid from the classroom that was filled with severe mental disabilities.
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> However, after I left the school my fiance substituted me, she taught her for the past week, and then she chose to leave.
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> She was offended because the principal called her a babysitter.
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> That was enormously contemptuous to her.
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> I could not blame her for the decision  she made, she had the right to express her intense disapproval to this explicit defamation.
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> Thereupon, we instantly notified the mother about the lack of Braille tutors at the school from now on.
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> Consequently, she decided not to send her daughter to the school, because it is insignificant right now.
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> This was  a sequential update to my story with the school, and an introduction to the main subject of this post.
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> Here in Egypt, we desperately demand to redefine the concept of cecity.
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> According to domestic social standards, cecity has inaccurately been classified with mental disabilities.
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> Blind people are incorrectly treated as handicapped which is of course, a total deficiency of the proper knowledge and vocational training on that regard.
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> Blind people are not physically handicapped, that is a prejudicial disposal to be perfectly fair.
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> Well some of them are for certain, but that has nothing to do with their blindness.
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> That is relevant to other physical or mental problems.
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>    Here in Egypt we constantly talk about the gains of the  revolution, but we frankly have not implemented any of the repeatedly chanted slogans.
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> We lack of implementing the social justice, which its elementary factors advocates for recognizing blind people as just unremarkable members of the society.
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> Our backwardness escalates in radically discriminating against a particular class of people, segmenting and gravely isolating them.
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> Blind people in Egypt ought to speak up for themselves, because noone will do that on their behalf.
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> Our lives here are overwhelmingly occupied with numerous challenges.
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> I am seeking for total social equality with others, that is when I will only feel contented.
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> The battle with the predetermined temperament is not over yet, it still has multiple phases to come.
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> Knowledge is a shoreless ocean.
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> Thank you for reading, and have a pleasant time.
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