Embangweni Secondary School for Deaf Children is situated with the Embangweni Mission, established as Loudon Mission in 1902, where there is a Church, a hospital, the Donald Fraser Guesthouse and a number of schools.
Owned and run by the CCAP (Central Church of Africa Presbyterian), this school strives to provide a good secondary education for its girls and boys over six years. It is hampered by a number of factors including:
- teachers are allocated here and ‘pick up sign language from the pupils’
- some families abandon their children once they are placed at school and provide no money for transport home or other needs
- the school has limited building space. It currently borrows two classrooms from the nearby primary school.
This is a boarding school for boys and girls. The Mamie Martin Fund supports seven girls at this school. Two of the MMF-supported pupils are ‘Alison Girls’, supported by the Scottish Government and four are ‘Thompson Girls’, supported through a fund which celebrates the memory of Jack and Phyllis Thompson. We hope that you enjoy the video above which shows three of the Thompson girls chatting about their families and school.
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