Skills Fund supports O&M

The National Skills Fund (NSF) is funding the training of twenty blind and partially sighted persons in Limpopo and Free State provinces.

Gilbert Mangwekea, O&M Practitioner will train between seven and eleven blind persons in Mohlaletsi Disable Centre, Limpopo Province from 3 September until 30 November 2018 whilst Nombuso Sibisi, O&M Practitioner will do a similar training in Bloemfontein, Free State.

The O&M training will include:

• Sighted guide techniques
• Pre cane skills
• Indoor cane skills
• White cane training
• Skills of daily living e.g. kitchen, cleaning and cooking skills; personal grooming, identification of clothing; and communication skills using the telephone/cellphone, identifying money.

More information:

Johnson Mdluli 081 017 0896