Equal Opportunities for deaf children
To council families with deaf children and provide support for the children themselves.
- Recipient:
- The National Council for the Deaf
- Country:
- Sri Lanka
- Project contact:
-
Maud Senaratne (The National Council for the Deaf)
- Start date:
- 01 January 2009
- End date:
- 31 December 2009
- Total budget:
- 1,750,000.00 LKR (�8,739.95)
- Beneficiary type:
- Parents, Young deaf people, School aged children, Pre-school aged children, Teachers
- Project type:
- Deaf club / youth club, Advocacy, Sign language, Community based rehabilitation, Vocational training, Deaf awareness, Integrated education
Summary:
To council families with deaf children and provide support for the children themselves.
Aim:
To contribute to defending the rights of deaf children from the poor income group through their families and siblings.
Beneficiaries:
Deaf children and young people aged 2 to 25 from 100 families from the poor income group in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka
Activities:
Workshops for parents of deaf children on:
- deaf children's rights to education
- communication methods
- equal opportunities to employment and vocational training courses
-rights to housing and healthcare
-awaerness of sexual and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS and risk of abuse
Other activities include sign language classes for parents and siblings and training of trainers to repeat the rights workshops with other groups of parents.
