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Hey Alfred the teacher says you can go to school with us today
Really? Let me come!
Follow us!
Alfred what is all this about?
I want to go to school also...
School is not for you
please, please, please, please
OK my son, it's not really your own making and I'm really sorry about your situation...
Let me see what I can do, maybe can we try tomorrow
thank you Mommy
Alfred, I think today you will go to school, I have prepared all of this for you to begin, plus this pen ok?
What is this all about? Today is not Sunday, you put all these clothes for what?
Take off your clothes before it gets spoiled.
No, no, Mommy said I am going to school today.
What? Are you crazy? You and your son are a curse to my family.
You take him back to the village where your brothers ate all my cows. I am no longer staying here.
I am sorry Alfred I am sorry.
It is OK Mommy.
You're welcome! Thank you! How are you? I'm fine how are you? Fine.
Alfred how are you? Fine, and you? Fine.
What is Alfred doing at home alone when he's supposed to be in school, sharpening his mind and playing with other children.
The father doesn't care to pay his school fees.
What we can do is take him to the physiotherapy unit for a proper assessment.
The physiotherapist will establish exactly what he needs, and eventually he will be able to go back to school.
Alfred from my examination and the papers, is a very bright young boy, he can be educated and have a very good future.
Alfred you must know that having disability is not the end of things.
I am going to make arrangements so that I talk to the nearest headmaster, and find a school for you.
If there is a problem of movement we will provide you with a wheelchair.
Disability is not inability, don't marginalize persons with it, we are also people...
Now class today we have a new candidate, his name is Cadribo Alfred,
can we warmly welcome him into our class.
Welcome Alfred.
Let us feel free as we chat with him, as we learn with him, as we share our ideas with him,
because he's like us, he's a learner. He will be part of us starting from today.
I remember I used to play that song when I was young.
Children are playing very good.
That one is my son, I am proud of him. You've got a very good son.
A capable person can get a job, but it's more difficult for a disabled person to get a job.
Without education you would just be useless, you wouldn't have anywhere to go,
so I felt like I have to be educated, and also I am a human being.
Even with the disability I was carrying, I still felt I can go through, because I was tough and the brain was still working better.
In fact, the spirit in your heart runs faster than your body.