The Ministry of Education has adopted special interventions to make sure that children living with disabilities can access quality education.
The Special Needs Education Director Fred Haga said the Ministry places a lot of emphasis on the learners in all its programmes.
He made the remarks during the official closing ceremony for the Term One games for learners with special needs (SNE) in Nakuru on Thursday.
Haga noted that co-curricular activities are critical to the development and education of all learners’ especially those with special needs and disabilities due to their therapeutic nature that fosters the learning of other skills like teamwork.
“CBC Sports is an identified pathway and we would like to allow learners to develop their different skills and talents and represent this country even at the international level,” he said.
Haga said that some of the things that the ministry does to make sure that the children are in school include enhanced funding, separate from what their peers without disabilities get.
"The leadership of the ministry has expanded the school feeding program to include all the special schools and also special units which have a boarding wing," he said.
“The ministry considers the special schools and with effect from this year, an allocation has been made for infrastructural development will be provided to the schools."
He said some of the challenges faced during the week-long sports actions were beyond human control including the unfavorable rainy weather conditions experienced.
He affirmed that any other challenges faced are a learning lesson and have been taken up and will be dealt with at relevant levels for special needs learners to enjoy and participate in sports.
Primary School Special Needs Sports Coordinator John Opiyo noted that the term one activities were wonderful and learners will go home happy because they enjoyed it.
“The successful activities, good participation and interactions in the conclusion of the games will mark the planning for the next phase for ball games which are scheduled for Kericho in August,” he said.
