On the road to inclusion

A boy pushing another boy in a wheelchair at a school in Tanzania.

As many as 33 million children with disabilities are out of school worldwide. A new report from IIEP-UNESCO reveals common challenges faced in planning for inclusive education and a way forward for getting all children and youth learning together.

“I lost my sight when I was 16 years old,” recounts Fred Haga, Acting Director of Special Needs Education in Kenya’s Ministry of Education. “At that time, the awareness was quite low, so I had to drop out of school.”