Building inclusive communities through communication and advocacy
The project will focus on teaching sign language in two after-school inclusive kids clubs in Galle, as well as supporting families with deaf children.
- Recipient:
- Equality-based Community Support And Training
- Country:
- Sri Lanka
- Project contact:
-
Catherine Liyanage (Equality-based Community Support And Training)
- Start date:
- 01 January 2009
- End date:
- 31 December 2010
- Total budget:
- 3,230,160.00 LKR (�19,914.67)
- Beneficiary type:
- Parents, Young deaf people, School aged children
- Project type:
- Parents' group, Deaf club / youth club, Rights-based, Advocacy, Lobbying, Sign language, Deaf awareness, Outreach or home based programme
Summary:
The project will focus on teaching sign language in two after-school inclusive kids clubs in Galle, as well as supporting families with deaf children.
Aim:
The project aims to bring about greater community inclusion through building capacity and knowledge among deaf children and their families, with the active participation of deaf adults.
Beneficiaries:
- 160 school aged deaf children
- 40 families of deaf children
- 20 Social Service Officers
- 20 deaf adults
Activities:
- Teach sign language, rights awareness and advocacy skills to children at two deaf kid's clubs
- Support the inclusion of deaf children in existing inclusive kids clubs run by Sarvodaya
- Provide outreach support to families of deaf children
- Parents support group and teach families sign language and rights
- Teach Social Service Officers sign language and deaf children's rights
-Support advocacy activities among children and parents
- Write a community inclusion manual to capture lessons learnt
