Rotary South Supports Special Education Centre

The Special Education Centre based in Vieux-Fort is bursting at its seams with an increase in the number of enrollments in the last few years. The Centre is in dire need of space to efficiently run the programs needed for the range of special needs that the children present with.

The Centre hosted a BINGO Party on Friday March 1^st to raise much needed funds to build a classroom for the students with Blindness and Visual Impairment. Rotarian Shermie is an itinerant teacher who specializes in working with students who are blind and presently has no classroom space to work with her students now enrolled at the Centre, one is a one year old totally blind baby, another is an eight year old with bilateral glaucoma and cataract who is just beginning her formal education, and neither are able to receive the intervention needed as yet because of the situation at the Centre.  In true Rotary Spirit, Rotarians came out to support one of our own, and Rotary’s area of focus: Basic Education and literacy for all!