East Africa: Deaf Children Still Denied Access to Secondary School

27 January 2003

Kampala — OVER 1,000 deaf pupils countrywide sat for this year's Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). Majority of these have no where to go for their secondary or vocational studies.

Education for the deaf has been sidelined. While Uganda was the first country to have a school for the deaf, in 1959, in the whole of East And Central Africa, we are yet to have a single secondary school for the deaf.

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