NGO leader asks teachers to teach children living with disability on how to communicate when defiled

Hope for African Women Foundation has appealed to communities to take care of their deaf and dumb children, who experience a lot of untold abuses from adults.

The foundation’s Representative in Nyamira region, Gladys Nyasuguta, asked teachers in special schools to find suitable ways of teaching the affected on how to communicate whenever adults sexually molested them, most of them being close relatives or their guardians.

“Some of these types of children find themselves in predicaments they can not understand as they are defiled and find themselves with pregnancies they only feel but are unable to express the experiences because of their physical and mental disabilities,” she said.

Nyasuguta was speaking at Kiptendeni Primary School in Borabu Constituency, where she asked the team to supply sanitary towels to more than 200 girls.

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She took teacher, parents and pupils through basic steps to be followed to help a child who has who has been defiled stating some of them as nit washing clothes of the victim for purpose of preserving the defilement evidences, taking the victim to hospital for treatment and counselling and counselling and finally reporting the incident to the police.

She asked parents to develop a friendly environment instead of turning violent and dictatorial to their children to create a free medium through which they express their emotions after any abuse for personal healing that will set them free from stress and trauma.

She asked parents to provide their children with at least three pairs of uniforms for their girl-child pupils to enable them to be clean, because their biological body makes them require more grooming than their boy counterparts.

She asked teachers and parents to take their girl children who have attained 10 years and above to the hospital for regular checkups to detect any early disease or pregnancies caused through ignorance and deliberate abuse from sadists in society.

Nyasuguta thanked Dr Walter Chanu for his exemplary donation of sanitary towels to help girls from poor homes in Nyamira County to remain at school.

By Enock Okong’o