- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cote d'lvoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
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- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
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- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- United Republic of Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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| S. No. |
Regions |
Mailing Address of Officer in Place |
Telephone & Fax Numbers |
E-mail ID |
| 1 |
DEPUTY REGIONAL CHAIRPERSON |
Dr Elly Macha
African Union of the Blind (AfUB)
P. O. Box 72872, 00200
Nairobi, KENYA. |
Phone: 254-20-823-989
Fax: 254-20-823-776 |
elly@afub-uafa.org or
emacha2000@yahoo.com |
| 2 |
DEPUTY REGIONAL CHAIRPERSON |
David Botwey
Sight Savers International (SSI)
West Africa Regional Office
P.O. Box 18190 KIA, Airport,
Accra, GHANA |
Phone: 233-21-774210
or 233-21-768935
Fax: 233-21-774209 |
dbotwey@sightsavers.org.gh |
| 3 |
Chairperson –
Northern Africa |
Dr. Sawsan El Messiri
52 Mussadak Street, Dokki Cairo
EGYPT |
Phone: 202-7603347
or 202-3358441
Fax: 202-760 0574 |
smessiri@soficom.com.eg |
| 4 |
Chairperson -
Southern Africa |
Henoch Schoeman
Christian Blind Mission (CBM)
PO Box 5294
Tygervalley, Cape Town
7536 South Africa |
Phone: 27-21-914-3014
Fax: 27 21 914 3031 |
Henoch@cbmsa.org
schoemangh@telkomsa.net |
| 5 |
Chairperson -
Eastern Africa |
Tigabu Gebremedhin
CBM East Africa II Regional Office
Post Box 2670/694
Addis Ababa
ETHIOPIA |
Phone: 251 1 62 45 23
Fax: 251 1 62 45 16 |
tigabu@ethionet.et
cbm.roe2@ethionet.et
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| 6 |
Chairperson -
Western Africa |
Isuwa Jurmang
Special Education Department
Faculty of Education
University of JOS, JOS
NIGERIA |
|
jurmangi2002@yahoo.com |
| 7 |
Chairperson -
Central Africa |
Vacant |
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Regional Update
A workshop on “Teacher preparation in the area of visual impairment” was held in Kampala, Uganda on 3-5 December 2007. It was inaugurated by Hon. Peter T. Lokeris MP, Minister of State for Primary Education of the Republic of Uganda and attended by 22 participants from Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia. Mani, Secretary General, ICEVI facilitated the workshop along with Wilfred Maina, Regional Chairperson of the Africa region and it provided an opportunity for the participants to discuss the nature of collaboration between the African countries to strengthen human resource development issues in visual impairment. The workshop unanimously endorsed the ICEVI model curriculum to prepare teachers of children with visual impairment and also agreed to incorporate the inputs of the curriculum in teacher preparation programmes in their countries.
The regional committee of the ICEVI Africa region met on 5-6 December in Kampala, Uganda and short-listed Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda and Uganda as the countries for implementation of EFA-VI global campaign during the first phase. The committee suggested that other countries in the region should also be encouraged to implement EFA-VI activities. The regional committee also prepared probable job descriptions for the Regional Coordinator for the EFA-VI proposed to be appointed. It is believed that establishment of the regional secretariat in Nairobi and appointment of a full-time coordinator will go a long way in realizing the goals of EFA-VI global campaign in the Africa region.
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