Fresher Welcome: Celebration in Yangon School for the Blind

Yangon School for the Blind (Khawaechan) welcomed its fresher for 2019-2020 academic year with a ceremony, Friday.

The fresher welcome ceremony aims to deliver a message for all blind children to be educative. Yangon School for the Blind (Khawaechan) accpet 160 students upmost for each academic year and there are 27 fresh students for this year. Among them, students of age 4 to 11 are identified as kindergartens meanwhile students of age 12 and 13 are submitted to take lessons at (3 Rs) class.

Headmistress, Yangon School for the Blind (Khawaechan), Zina Dun said “Parents should admit blind children and children with visually impaired with multiple disabilities to schools in time. Blind children are mostly admitted to school when they are around 7 or 8 years old. So, they have to study at kindergarten level although it is grade-3 level for them to study at that age.”

At the event, students from the School entertained with dance and songs. It also features handing over ceremony of personal braille writing frames and teaching aids to Grade-3 students and prize awarding ceremony.

Student, Thoon Nay Soe said “I had to take classes outside of the school as a middle schooler and troubled catching up with the lessons. Rather just learning about school lectures, I learnt a lot new things like using computer, essential skills needed for a blind person and playing guitar. I love playing guitar.”

Currently, there are 7 schools for the blind nationwide with 2 schools in Yangon. Yangon School for the Blind (Khawaechan) provides education for primary, middle and high school levels and university level, vocational trainings on making handicrafts, massaging as well as classes on art and sports trainings. Additional subjects to class curriculum for blind students are orientation, mobility and daily living skills.