Voices of girls with disabilities :: Mmegi Online

Ensuring equal rights, full engagement and participation for persons with disabilities is a cornerstone of the basic human rights laws and frame works. However, young people with disabilities remain one of the most excluded communities, facing a lot of challenges in their daily lives both at home and beyond. NNASARETHA KGAMANYANE writes

Sabata Mokalee is a student at Molefi Secondary School and is visually impaired. Just like any other young person, Mokalee, has dreams and would like to be a neurologist someday.

Speaking recently at the International Day of the Girl Child organised by UNICEF at the Ramotswa Centre for Deaf Education, she pointed out that living with disabilities is not easy. Mokalee said, for instance, her privacy is compromised because when consulting a medical health practitioner, her medical card and medicines are not written in braille.

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