Leonard Cheshire
Leonard Cheshire is developing inclusive education interventions to improve outcomes for children with disabilities in Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Bangladesh.
In Kenya, our Early Childhood Developmental Education (ECDE) projects in Homa Bay and Kakuma Refugee Camp are applying inclusive practices through specialist inclusive education training.
In Nepal, we are piloting an inclusive education model, promoting and improving access, enrolment and retention of children at schools in the Kalika Municipality of Chitwan District. We also provide data collection methodology, teacher training and auditing tools.
In Bangladesh, we are designing an intervention to improve primary education systems for 5-16-year-old children with disabilities in Narshingdi and Sirajganj districts.
We're involved in the consortium because…
Education
"We are experts in inclusive education, having supported over 38,000 disabled children into education. Avin from Tanzania was born with spina bifida and is now thriving in an inclusive school."
Inclusion
"We love to see children with disabilities thrive. John (left) and Vilda are graduates of our inclusive education programme in Kenya and have ambitions to be a politician and social worker respectively."
Accessibility
"Our inclusive education model equips children for the classroom and life. Anthony from Kenya, is seen here with a new bespoke crutch and prosthetic leg."
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Marie Schoeman: “Inclusive education remains a misunderstood concept”
Marie Schoeman has nearly thirty years’ experience in the field of inclusive education and worked as a technical adviser at Leonard Cheshire.
Zahir Siddique
Zahir is the country representative for Leonard Cheshire, managing the Inclusive Futures initiative in Bangladesh – a programme giving children with disabilities access to education.
