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I feel that it takes you too long to come to the realisation that a physically or mentally challenged individual is not useless or incapable to make a contribution to the community where he resides.

I was born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, and the people there always try to make fun of the handicapped.

A deaf and mute person, a blind, an epileptic; even a not so pleasing looking person, were not spared of this sort of riducule.

It is my belief that this ignorance is directly linked to their spiritual awakenig.

A person whose conciousness has not been elavated through reading, prayer and so on, will never be able to raise above such pettiness.

Haiti is a poor country, and as far as I know, there was only one school for children with special need and, it the children of middle class and upper class citizens of the country who had access to the institution.

It will take a long time before our physically and mentally challenged will have a fair share in the main stream of our society - the poor children will remain in the abyss of the social scale.

While we are contributing to rebuild the infrastructure of the country which were ravaged by the earthquake, we should also contribute for the erection of school for children with special need and also, train our teachers to deal with mentally and physically challanged children.

David Grant, September 13 2010, 12:26 PM

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