On Saturday 17th October 2015, there will be a grand
commissioning of “Rebecca’s Room“, a resource centre for the visually impaired.
The Queens College Old Girls Association, QCOGA class of
1979 stated that the commissioning of centre is first of its kind in any
secondary school in Nigeria.
This was revealed in a statement sent to the Newswatch Times
by the Publicity Committee
QCOGA class of 79, Sola Alamutu.
QCOGA class of 79, Sola Alamutu.
The statement hinted that the two pioneer visually impaired
Old Girls, Mojisola Akintaro, Director Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and
Development, Abuja, and Deborah Balogun Principal Government Junior Secondary
School, Ikorodu, Lagos, will grace the occasion as special guests, to give a
mentoring talk.
The commissioning ceremony, according to Alamutu, which will hold from 12 noon to 2.00 PM at Theresa Chukwuma Hall, Queens College, Onike, Yaba, Lagos, will also feature an awards ceremony.
The commissioning ceremony, according to Alamutu, which will hold from 12 noon to 2.00 PM at Theresa Chukwuma Hall, Queens College, Onike, Yaba, Lagos, will also feature an awards ceremony.
“The centre is named in memory of Rebecca Adeniji (nee Akintaro), a
distinguished, visually impaired old girl from the class of 79 who passed away
in a car accident in 1999. The resource centre is yet another step forward in
the educational experiment embarked upon since the 70s in mixed community
living, where the visually impaired and the non-visually impaired are educated
side by side without segregation.
“Today, 20 students and one teacher are part of the Queens
College community.
Rebeccaв’s Room is fitted with 20 individual workstations, each with its own desktop computer installed with the JAWS software, which provides speech, and Braille output, a Braille embosser, scanner and laser jet printer. It will enable visually impaired students participate effortlessly and seamlessly in mainstream education thus giving them the opportunity of keeping abreast with their peers.
The Queens College Old Girls class of 79 hopes that its pioneering project will inspire other schools and institutions of higher learning to replicate their idea thereby giving more visually impaired students the opportunity to further their education to the highest level,” the statement added.
Rebeccaв’s Room is fitted with 20 individual workstations, each with its own desktop computer installed with the JAWS software, which provides speech, and Braille output, a Braille embosser, scanner and laser jet printer. It will enable visually impaired students participate effortlessly and seamlessly in mainstream education thus giving them the opportunity of keeping abreast with their peers.
The Queens College Old Girls class of 79 hopes that its pioneering project will inspire other schools and institutions of higher learning to replicate their idea thereby giving more visually impaired students the opportunity to further their education to the highest level,” the statement added.
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