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May 10, 2021

Education for Children with Disabilities in Senegal

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Dr Viola Vaughn is an educator and consultant with a multidecade career in humanitarian activism across Africa. Based in Dakar, Senegal since the early 2000s, she founded the Women’s Health Education and Prevention Strategies Alliance (WHEPSA).She did this in order to launch the 10,000 Girls program to educate Senegalese women and girls who were at risk of falling out of the education system. However, since 2010, she has worked in the remote south-eastern Kedougou region of Senegal. Partially as a result of its remoteness, Kedougou experiences among the most poverty and malnutrition of any region in Senegal. Here Dr Vaughn seeks to improve access to education for children with disabilities. While educating children with disabilities was not her original goal, it has become her mission.In this article, Dr Vaughn shares her genuine appreciation of the strategies for educating children with disabilities in Senegal. 

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Education for Children with Disabilities in Senegal

Quality Education

Dr Viola Vaughn is an educator and consultant with a multidecade career in humanitarian activism across Africa. Based in Dakar, Senegal since the early 2000s, she founded the Women’s Health Education and Prevention Strategies Alliance (WHEPSA).She did this in order to launch the 10,000 Girls program to educate Senegalese women and girls who were at risk of falling out of the education system. However, since 2010, she has worked in the remote south-eastern Kedougou region of Senegal. Partially as a result of its remoteness, Kedougou experiences among the most poverty and malnutrition of any region in Senegal. Here Dr Vaughn seeks to improve access to education for children with disabilities. While educating children with disabilities was not her original goal, it has become her mission.In this article, Dr Vaughn shares her genuine appreciation of the strategies for educating children with disabilities in Senegal. 

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