Norway helps with Braille equipment<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A three-year project to develop the use of
\nBraille in seven blind resource centers and 40 special schools
\naround the country was officially launched on Thursday.<\/p>\n
A total of US$17.99 million in soft loans to be returned in 25
\nyears has been provided by the Norwegian government to finance
\nactivities ranging from the training of teachers to a campaign to
\nraise awareness of the plight of the blind, the Ministry of
\nEducation and Culture's director of basic education, Achmad D.S.
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
The project, which is known as the Quality Improvement of
\nSchools for the Blind, actually started this year and has already
\nprovided Braille printing machines and laboratory equipment to
\nsome of the seven centers, he said.<\/p>\n
Fourteen teachers and two ministry officials are scheduled to
\nbe sent to Norway for postgraduate studies in Braille, he said.<\/p>\n
Printing machines have already been distributed to centers for
\nthe blind in Jakarta, Bandung in West Java and Pemalang in
\nCentral Java.<\/p>\n
The other centers are located in Denpasar, Mataram,
\nUjungpandang and Payakumbuh.<\/p>\n
\"Hopefully by mid 1999 all of the centers will have a
\nmachine,\" Rosyid Rosihan, the ministry's head of special schools
\nfor the handicapped said. (edt)<\/p>",
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