Education and special children

Urgent need to identify the challenges promptly and strengthen mechanisms already in place, an SLACD meeting highlights

No words were needed – the emotion and expressions of the mothers with special children said it all.

In their battle against many odds to integrate their children as adults with dignity in a sadly discriminatory society, one major factor is education. It is to discuss this burning issue that they gathered recently with hope, for an advocacy meeting at the Family Health Bureau auditorium in Colombo