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Care Enough to facilitate the integration of young people with disabilities

The situation of people with disabilities, particularly young people, is of concern to Thanya Mengue who has just created Care Enough, an NGO determined to contribute to the building to seek solutions to the problems of schooling, integration and professional reintegration of this category. of populations. For her first outing to Port-Gentil, on Saturday April 22, in a local hotel, she opened her address book to make her guests aware of the difficulties that some families encounter in sending their children with disabilities to school. For her, "the student with a disability is a student like the others, he must have access to the same knowledge and be subject to the same requirements". Alongside the NGO Agir pour le Handicap à l'Ecole and the provincial department of social affairs, she organized a show where Maman Grand Nord and Pierre Levy (slammer resident of the Xavier Center for Specialized Education) spoke about their talent. A charity operation in support of adolescent children and young girls with disabilities. Opportunity for the public to be made aware, through numerous testimonies, of the situation of people with disabilities in the oil city.

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Port-Gentil Child Friendly City Initiative

Partners will develop and implement an operational plan Donatien Tameko, deputy representative of Unicef ??in Gabon, stayed in Port-Gentil, at the head of a working mission following the signing, last July, of a memorandum valid for three years for obtaining , by the city of Port-Gentil, from the Ville Amie des Enfants label. This involved making a first step, a few weeks before the end of the first year, with local partners, in particular the ad hoc commission for monitoring the acts of the memorandum, private sector operators and members of Civil society. With the ad hoc committee, it will be a question of developing, from the action plan drafted at the time of the signing of the memorandum, an operational plan which will serve as a roadmap for all the partners. This will be presented in particular to economic operators who, as Donatien Tameko pointed out by congratulating and thanking them, have always responded to support development projects for the benefit of populations, particularly through the mechanisms of Social Responsibility. of Companies (CSR). The UN official also praised the action of civil society organizations for the protection of children, very active in the field, and whose role in the implementation of many projects is expected. Faithful AFANOU EDEMBE

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World Autism Awareness Day

Placed this year under the theme "Towards a neuro-inclusive world for all", World Autism Awareness Day, commemorated on April 2 each year, was celebrated the day before, in Port-Gentil, at the library of Imya district. Opportunity to raise awareness among children in primary classes who attend this reading and tutoring space which is open to them free of charge. Writer, slammer or even poetess, the artist Nanda la Gaboma spoke to the children, with words at their fingertips, on the essentials of what they needed to know about autism. Above all, how to behave with children who are affected. After explaining that autism is not contagious and that autistic children have the same rights as other children, she led her young audience to describe the behaviors to have towards autistic children. And the children respond: “we must love them”; “we have to talk to them”; “we have to play with them”; “we have to share our toys with them”; “we have to teach them what we know how to do”. They also understood that in turn, they could learn a lot from autistic children, because there are areas in which they are very good, especially music. An exercise intended to contribute to the acceptance of autism within society.

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