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  Guest Article by Li Xinshu, People's Daily The homeroom teacher of Jiang Xintong cheers up his  differently abled   student before Gaokao - Picture by Ziyang Guancha Amid China's 2025 national college entrance examination, known as gaokao, scenes of quiet determination played out across the country. In Suzhou, east China's Anhui province, Wang Ziwen, a student with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as "brittle bone disease", was gently assisted into the exam hall by staff. In Ziyang, southwest China's Sichuan province, Jiang Xintong, paralyzed from the waist down due to myelitis, arrived at the examination room 30 minutes early via a special access route. In Shenzhen, Guangdong province in south China, Chen Xinhe, the only fully blind candidate in the province, took his braille exam with the support of special education teachers, a counselor, and medical staff arranged by the test center. These touching moments reflect not only the resilience of th...

By Linda Mupemo Zambia Union of All Persons With Disabilities President Pascal Mulenga - Picture by MISA Zambia Zambia Union of All Persons with Disabilities (ZUAPD) President Pascal Mulenga has called on Government to allocate more funds to education support for persons with disabilities.  Mr. Mulenga noted that persons with disabilities are facing challenges in accessing education especially in rural areas.  Mr. Mulenga said this in a media statement made available to ZANIS. He explained that despite the free education policy Government is implementing, some special needs children are still facing challenges in accessing education due to the severity of their conditions.   "Some special needs children have critical conditions which cannot allow them to be moving from home to school on a daily basis hence they need to be in boarding school. However, some parents to special needs children have limited financial resources to afford boarding fees hence their children a...