Special training before JICA Leadership Development Course 2009
Training Report - Leadership Development Course
Special training of assistance for persons with disabilities was conducted on 9th October organized by JICA Tokyo international center.
Ms. Yoko Sadaie Program officer of Human Development Division, JICA Tokyo, and Ms. Masako Okuhira, Manager of International training section of JSRPD, were invited as lecturers.
The training aimed to provide basic knowledge of assistance for persons with visual impairments and persons who use wheelchairs to people who worked for JICA TOKYO, in order to enhance support of training participants with disabilities. 15 persons participated in the training, practiced how to push wheelchairs at difference in level on street, and how to guide persons with visual impairments at stairs or on the Braille blocks.
That was the first of its kind of experience for most of participants.
At the beginning, participants tried very gingerly, however, they grasped the techniques gradually by hands-on experience.
Ms. Sadaie and Ms. Okuhira both emphasized that the most important point of assistance was, to ASK needs of persons who will be assisted.
