[Faith-talk] The necessaty to redefine the cecity in Egypt.

[Linda Mentink]

Maybe you should contact the World Blind Union, and see if they can help you.

At 03:29 PM 3/9/2014, you wrote:


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