The Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck Super Fab Lab handed over about one hundred assistive tables and chairs, along with stencils and tracers, to the Ministry of Education and Skills Development today. The lab locally produced these assistive technologies to support children with disabilities.
The Bhutan Foundation funded the initiative as part of a project to promote inclusive education and ensure access to affordable assistive technology. So far, the project has included training sessions, workshops, awareness programmes, and make-a-thons.
The Bhutan Foundation emphasises the need for a collaborative approach to make the country’s education system more inclusive.
“As we get older, we might need bill organisers and canes to help us walk. These are all considered assistive technology, and to develop this and have it built in our country is very important. For that, one person alone, the innovator alone, for example, cannot do it. The innovators, parents, the children, everyone needs to come together so that we match the person with the technology,” said Phenki, the programme officer of Bhutan Foundation.
Kelzang Chhophyel
Edited by Sangay Chezom
