

Centre for students with disability
The Special Resource Centre for Students with Disability at Fourah Bay College, Mount Aureol, Freetown. The Centre aims at enhancing the promotion of Article 24(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which provides for the right of persons with disabilities to education without discrimination and on the basis of equal opportunity ; Article 8(3) (f) of the 1991 constitution of Sierra Leone, which explicitly protect the rights of older persons and persons with disabilities in the area of care , welfare and educational opportunities; Article 15(2) of the Sierra Leone Persons with Disability Act, 2011 which advocates for the provision of special needs for persons with disability in an educational environment; and other local and international instruments protecting the rights of persons with disability in an educational institution.