P a g e | 45 envisaged for the future to require people with disabilities to be considered in designing service provisions across all sectors to allow them to be integrated into the community. The Disability Policy 2011 guides health service providers, institutions, care-givers and families of those with disability with more specificity as to the best way in which to provide service, care and support. It articulates that the most common causes of impairment and disability include chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer; injuries such as those due to road traffic crashes, conflicts, falls, mental impairments, birth defects, malnutrition, HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases. The GoL operates a vocational training centre, known as IVRC, for people with disabilities which offers courses in woodwork, leather work, sewing, electrical and metal work. The MoSD has community based rehabilitation (CBR) officers employed in each District to provide services specific to those with disabilities, from counseling to fitting them with assistive devices. There are also government-led community-based rehabilitation programs in each of the ten (10) Districts under which officers meet communities and support groups formed in each District. GoL in 2013 hosted Communities of Practice Disabilities Advocacy in Mainstreaming (COPDAM) conference for over 20 African member nation States, during which issues of disability in African countries were discussed. Each year Disability Day is hosted and celebrated by the MoSD with a public event where people with disabilities are invited to participate. There are eight (8) schools specific to people with disabilities, some for children who are hearing or visually impaired, some for children with only intellectual disabilities and some accept children with any form of physical disability. Lesotho College of Education now offers a certificate course in sign language. The MoET established Special Education Units under the Education Sector Plan to address the specific needs of these children. NAME OF SCHOOL St. Catherine’s High School St. Bernadette Resource Center for the Blind St. Angela Cheshire Home for Disabled Children Phelisanong Lesotho Kananelo Center for the Deaf Mohloli oa Bophelo St. Paul School for the Deaf Thuso E Tla Tsoa Kae Handicapped Center Source: MoSD TYPE OF DISABILITY CATERED FOR Visual impairment Visual impairment Physical Physical and intellectual Hearing impaired Visual impairment Hearing impaired Physical