FDH Bank has set aside almost K6 million to Hope for the Blind to benefit 10 underprivileged students from Chancellor College and various secondary schools in the country. Signing an agreement in Blantyre on Monday, FDH bank managing Director Dr Ellias Ngalande said the bank has committed K5.9 million to Hope for the Blind to […]
Malawi Union of the Blind (MUB) has expressed concern over inadequate funding towards special needs education and asked government to consider allocating more resources for the same. MUB Executive Director, Ezekiel Mkandawire, raised the concern recently when the union donated assorted food items and clothes to Ekwendeni School for People with visual impairment in Mzimba […]
Malawi Union for the Blind (MUB) has asked government to train more teachers specialized in teaching visually impairment learners. The remarks were made by Executive Director for Malawi Union for Blind, Ezekiel Kumwenda during the opening of a three days training for teachers from different schools in all regions of the country on repairing the […]
Screening of eyes for children in schools helps to identify sight problems in children, which result into getting early medical help to save their sight, Executive Director for Malawi Union of the Blind (MUB), Ezekiel Kumwenda has said. He said this on Monday at Malomo Primary School when Malawi Union of the Blind (MUB) had […]
Malawi Union for the Blind has snubbed new money samples produced by Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) saying they are still not blind-friendly, arguing they did not still follow what the visually impaired people had earlier proposed. On 23 May 2012, the RBM issued the new currency whose features did not please people with visual […]
The Malawi Union of the Blind (MUB) has expressed concern over lack of political will as well as government support to people with eye care services in the country. MUB Mwanza Chapter official, Gideon Chikasamba, said unlike other health sectors such as HIV and AIDS, there was very little government was doing to support people […]