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GALS facilitation with persons with disabilities
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GALS facilitation with persons with disabilities
In last week while facilitating the GALS methodology, I met with a big challenge, remember the persons with disability are also encouraged to attend. But we didn’t defined well what type of disability. It is where in selected champions there was someone who is a blind and can’t see anything.
What could you do in that case? Remember we need to do no harm!!!
If someone encountered the same challenge what was the next? How did you addressed the issue.
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4 Replies
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That is a good thing to discuss! How did you handle it? I know one case of a blind champion in Uganda, John Bosco from CEFORD knows him very well. But he is not yet in this group. Kevin from Hivos in Kenya sent some more invites for people to join this group but they still need to accept. I hope CEFORD and others will also be sharing about this topic.
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We have to take care for every one so something must be done so that no one is left out
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Much thanks Dear Thies. In the training first day I have discussed with him separately and agreed to send her wife. Because it was difficult to me to facilitate blind person while using GALS tools.
Thanks.
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What can help is the use of songs. Songs work very well in any case for remembering the steps of the tools. You can ask participants – after they learned the tool – to come up with a song, for example the vision journey song. See some examples in the Resource Centre:
Also, blind people can usually listen very well, and contribute to discussions. They can also say verbally what they think should be included in the drawings, and what they want to be added.
Perhaps the wife can work with him to share the tools? Good luck!
Fun for a purpose: examples from Western Uganda (songs and roles plays)
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