ICEVI - International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment

The EFA-VI activities are underway in Paraguay and the Dominican Republic. In Paraguay, meetings with representatives from the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, National Institute for Protection of Exceptional People, Vision 2020 National Coordinating Committee and Department of Statistics and Census were organised to coordinate the programs to detect children with visual impairment. An Agreement was signed with “Fundación Visión” for Ophthalmologic Assessment. Training activities under the EFA-VI campaign included low vision, early intervention, integration/inclusion, deafblindness, multiple disabilities, and child protection policies. ICEVI, CBM, and FOAL (ONCE Foundation for Latin America) supported most of the training activities. In Dominican Republic, the National Task Force met thrice and the EFA-VI campaign was formally launched by the Governor of the San Pedro de Macorís Province on November 28, 2007. Meetings with the officials of the Ministries of Education in Peru, Ecuador, Honduras and Guatemala have already been organised to launch EFA-VI global campaign in these countries in 2008. Nicaragua and Bolivia will be organising the first meeting of the National Task Force in 2008. Besides these EFA-VI activities, capacity building programmes on transition to work, vocational preparation, early intervention, and visual rehabilitation were conducted in Argentina, Peru, Columbia, and Brazil.

The regional chair Lucia Piccione, sub-regional chairs and the country representatives are working with the national governments to make the global campaign on education for all children with visual impairment as a priority activity. Lucia Piccione, Regional Chair, Latin America Region and Larry Campbell, President ICEVI had a meeting in ONCE on 10 December 2007 to explore the possibility of ONCE supporting EFA-VI activities in the Latin America region. The Educator is translated into Spanish and distributed to a large number of individuals and institutions in the region.

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