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I respect my donkey which replaced my leg!

my donkey  (2)

Fasika Marew is 16 years old girl living in northern Gondar west Belessa district.  She is 8th grade student. She has physical impairment since her child hood. She can’t move from place to place without peoples’ support. Her parents are farmers. She has five brothers. She uses her father’s donkey to move from place to place. She said that she is an average student in her class but always wants to become top class student. But she sometimes be absent from school when her parents are busy, this makes her to be an average student. Also I use the my father’s donkey I need someone to accompany me who can put me on the back of the donkey and put me off and take me my classroom.  I feel that people are bored caring me every day from home to school and back to home. So I decided to stay near the school from Monday to Friday. My school mates take care of me. My teachers also provide me support. Students bring me food from my home.

                                               my donkey  (1)

Thank you also for the CBM/ORDA school feeding program. I am benefited from it. I am optimist that I can move by myself if I am provided with a wheelchair. People came and asked me if I want a wheelchair. I told them yes but who is going to provide me it. I heard that it is expensive and my parents can’t afford it. But they told me that it is the same organization which is providing food, ORDA/CBM that they will provide me the wheelchair. I can’t tell you how much I am happy to hear that. When I use the donkey they tie my leg and it is painful. I am thankful to ORDA and CBM who are supporting me and persons like me. No one has asked us for such support before.

A visionary hearing impaired girl hopes the brighter tomorrow

Meseret Memire is one of the students who are being supported by the school feeding program of CBM/ORDA in east Belesa Taimen Primary school, she is 23 years old. She was 8th grade student while we were visiting her school in the last academic year. She is now promoted to grade 9. She can’t speak and listen. She learned by observation and support of her teachers. We didn’t find any sign language teacher in her previous school. We communicated her by writing our question and she writes back her answer. She perfectly writes in Amharic and some in English. Her parents are living in rural area. Her father is a priest. She wrote us that they don’t want to send her to school rather they make her work at home, Fitch water from river and do household activities. She has a skill in local hair dressing and makes money to support herself and her family.

                                                         visionary hearing  (1)

Ms. Tsega Feleke is one of her teachers. She said that Meseret’s academic performance is even better than her classmate with no disability/impairment. She follows our mouth movement and tries to understand what we are saying. In her writing Meseret has requested to strengthen her livelihood by using her own skill of local hair dressing. She requested some material to open small traditional hair dressing shop. She is happy with the support provided to her in the school feeding and appreciated her inclusion in the chicken distribution and she received six chickens. She said that the chickens support her livelihood and she will take care of them and she thanked ORDA/CBM for the support provided to her.