Graduates of Demonstration School for the Deaf at Mampong-Akuapem in the Eastern Region say they feel neglected by society due to their disabilities because people continuously refuse to pay them after they have rendered various services to them.
According to the headmistress of the school, Trudy Akusika Segbefia, after completing school the graduates are encouraged to set up their own businesses because people do not employ them, but those who patronise their services take advantage of them and refuse to pay for services rendered.
“My students always run to us after they have graduated and complain that they do not want to go back because their customers refuse to pay them due to their disabilities. This has been going on for so many years and nothing has been done about it,” she said.
Madam Segbefia added that the situation had created angst among the continuing students who are yet to graduate and do not know how society would receive them.
According to the headmistress, during vacation, the students refuse to go home because they are mocked at and looked down upon, “which is very painful”.
She appealed to the public to shy away from such acts because most of the students are very talented and creative.
She said, “I call on you all to please stop that because these students have intelligent ideas that can help develop society and also create jobs for the unemployed. Don’t look at their disabilities to cheat, judge and mock them but rather encourage them to boost their confidence level to work and feel accepted.”
Madam Segbefia also called on parents and guardians who bring their children to the school not to abandon them but rather visit them for them to feel loved and not rejected.
She explained to the DAILY HERITAGE that “most parents abandon their children here because they feel embarrassed to have a child who is deaf or physically challenged because of their status in society.”
The headmistress appealed to institutions to help the school to put up more classrooms and dormitories because the number of students keeps growing.
She explained that the students from kindergarten to senior high school are many and that they have no other option than to admit more students to occupy the uncompleted building.
“We want philanthropists and other institutions to help the school to build more classrooms and dormitory for us because we want more space in the class to prevent any outbreak of disease due to congestion,” she appealed.
Source: Daily Heritage
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PLEASE IT WRONG TO USE THE TERM DEAF AND DUMB. AM DEAF AND AM TELLING YOU JOURNALIST THAT IT OFFENSIVE TO SAY DUMB. ONLY DUMB JOURNALIST SAY DEAF PEOPLE ARE DUMB
We (deaf people) are not sure whether the Ghana journalists understand the difference between deaf and dumb. Deaf is an universally accepted term please. Most of us (deaf people) prefer 'deaf' please. Not 'deaf and dumb' please. I am not sure whether you people (journalists) have been educated before you were posting news that are in related to deaf. We (deaf people of Ghana) therefore appealing with the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and the board of the National Media Commission to educate their journalists
Well, journalist, let me ask you some questions. Do you really understand the term DEAF AND DUMB mentioned in the article? If a person can speak perfectly but his only disable is UNABLE to hear well do that make the person DEAF and DUMB? You called deaf people as DEAF and DUMB, do their mouth glued together when they are communicating with friend through sign language? Well, whoever wrote this ***barred word*** article I want to say he is a big ***barred word***!
Why do you people like calling us "Deaf and Dumb"??? When are you going to learn that *20th century phones has been replaced by smart phones??? You illiterates, exercise common sense. STOP CALLING US DEAF AND DUMB...