A non-profit organisation that helps children who are physically and/or intellectually disabled has offered to teach them in their homes in Sagaing Region.
The Disability Development Initiative (DDI), based in the town of Kalay, will start homeschooling this month.
DDI director Joshua said, “We’re helping disabled children to continue their education because at the moment they aren’t able to do so due to various reasons.”
He explained that they plan to have eight volunteer teachers teach the students in their homes and by the end of September they’ll start teaching some of them online through Zoom video conferencing.
“We’re discussing the idea with parents. Because of the many COVID-19 cases in Kalay, we’re not sure if they want us to teach in their homes and of course we also need to protect our volunteer teachers,” Joshua told Khonumthung News.
DDI plans to offer an hour lesson per day to each of the 50 students enrolled in the programme in September.