is also developing a therapeutic village for the psychological and social rehabilitation of
young war veteran experiencing multiple addictions.
Concerning education more specifically, in 2007, with the support of UNESCO, a Strategic
Framework on school enrolment and re-enrolment of disabled children was developed
around six priority axes:
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Redevelopment of the legal framework to guarantee the rights to education of
children with disabilities;
Improvement of specific conditions for access to learning and promotion of a
communication environment;
Funding and capacity building for specialised agencies;
Support for informal education;
Promotion of partnership and cooperation;
Promotion of accompanying measures: coordination, research, monitoring and
evaluation.
There are eight institutions in Pointe-Noire, thus excluding children living in secondary cities
and in rural areas of special education, which are mainly concentrated in Brazzaville. We
welcome around 3,000 per year, while the estimated needs amount to more than 20 000
children. However, there is a reflexion on inclusive education.
In conclusion, it must be recognised that the efforts achieved are far from covering all needs
as evidenced by the few situations described below:
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About thirty blind and visually impaired children are hosted every year in the single
nationwide structure, the National Institute of the Blind of Congo: it accounted for 43
students in 2008;
There are nearly 444 hearing impaired including 301 at the Institute for Young Deaf
in Brazzaville and 143 at the Institute for hearing impaired in Pointe-Noire, while the
concerned population accounts for thousands more;
Only a hundred people with disabilities can benefit each year from training and
vocational rehabilitation at the National Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled
Persons in Brazzaville;
300 to 400 cases of disabilities are treated at the Brazzaville orthopaedic centre
against thousands of cases to be processed (because of the lack of information and
very low financial and geographical accessibility), and almost as much at the
Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Centre in Brazzaville, for a much larger target population;
For the intellectually disabled, a hundred young people are supported at the medicopsycho-educational centre, 70 at the psycho learning Institute (PPI) and thirty at the
Rehabilitation Centre for hearing, speech and language (CROPAL).
The Specialist School for intellectually disabled school children and is able to manage
more than a thousand cases each year. But this is also a small minority, given the tens
of thousands of school leavers or under performing due to mental disability,
maladjustment to school and various traumas.