Your support can help build and equip a classroom for children with hearing disabilities helping this young, growing and unique school to facilitate more students and ultimately provide free education to hundreds of disabled children in the area. It will be decorated in fresh clean colours to the standard that able-bodied children in Burkina take for granted.

In 2009 a local charity Association des Personnes Handicapées du Gourma (APHG) (one of ISI's partner organisations in Burkina Faso) launched a school for children with hearing disabilities - the only school of its kind for 200 miles. After training a teacher in sign language the first class opened to 15 children with varying levels of hearing. This class was held in a temporary structure, made from dry reads with a simple metal roof. The demand for places in the school was huge and each day new students arrived. A year on and there are now sixty students, but still only one teacher.

In response to this growth APHG decided to fundraise and construct a large classroom. There will be two new teachers arriving at the start of this academic year, totaling three trained teachers in the school. APHG had secured funds and has now received daily food for all the students, and school kits including uniforms, bags and curriculum textbooks.

APHG now looks to complete the construction of this classroom: securing the outer wall; dividing the class in two by constructing a partition; and decorating the class, creating a friendly and young environment for the students.

In the eighteen months this school has been open, 40 children have completed their CP1 (equivalent of Junior Infants) through sign language and 15 have completed their CP2 (equivalent of Senior Infants).
With the support from mygoodpoints.org APHG’s school has the opportunity to expand, making education accessible and providing a social network outside the immediate family for these children.