The Promhandicam centre to help disabled persons

In line with events marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the institution with services for the promotion of persons with disabilities in Yaounde best known by its French acronym Promhandicam last Wednesday, December 2, 2015 within its premises at the Mimboman II neighbourhood organised free consultation for people with eye and body malformation as well as an open-door event to make known to the public, the different activities that take place at the institution.

The Permanent Correspondent of Promhandicam, Laurent Bila Kibambe said even people living at the Mimboman neighbourhood do not know what takes place at the institution. According to him Promhandicam is an educational and rehabilitation project for people with disabilities in Cameroon. The institution has a school which integrate disabled and non-disabled children in the same learning environment, offers community based rehabilitation programme, Braille literature production and distribution, special needs and education centre as well as eye examinations.

While noting that the institution has a set of four-projects according to the needs of children with disabilities, the school within the institution accommodate visually, physically and mentally impaired children as well as integrates children with disabilities and non disabled children in the same learning environment. A special pedagogic method is used in the school to enable all children participate at same level. The Braille production center facilitates the distribution of Braille literature to other institutions for visually impaired people in the country on regular basis. The Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) programme offered in the institution aims to ensure the proximity of services (vocational training and eye screening) to people with disabilities in the communities.