The Centre is named in memory of Rebecca Adeniji (nee Akintaro), a distinguished, visually impaired old girl from the class of ’79 who passed away in a car accident in 1999.
The Resource Centre is yet another step forward in the educational experiment embarked upon since the 70s in mixed community living, where the visually impaired and the non-visually impaired are educated side by side without segregation. Today 20 students and one teacher are part of the Queens College community.
Rebecca’s Room is fitted with 20 individual workstations, each with its own desktop computer installed with the JAWS software, which provides speech, and braille output, a braille embosser, scanner and laser jet printer. It will enable visually impaired students participate effortlessly and seamlessly in mainstream education thus giving them the opportunity of keeping abreast with their peers.
The Queens College Old Girls class of 79 hopes that its pioneering project will inspire other schools and institutions of higher learning to replicate their idea thereby giving more visually impaired students the opportunity to further their education to the highest level.
The two pioneer visually impaired Old Girls, Mojisola Akintaro, Director Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Development Abuja, and Deborah Balogun Principal Government Junior Secondary School, Ikorodu will grace the occasion as special guests, to give a mentoring talk.
The Commissioning Ceremony, which will also feature an awards ceremony, will hold from 12 noon to 2.00 PM at Theresa Chukwuma Hall, Queens College, Onike, Yaba, on Saturday 17th October 2015.
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