Providing Sign Language to 3000 Nigerian Pupils
More Information About this ProjectProject Needs and BeneficiariesWe are addressing isolation, total exclusion and infringement of people’s Human Rights of those who cannot hear and speak. Unlike those with visual and limb impairments, respectively, they can hardly work in offices because nobody understands them and they cannot interact with the public. We want to eradicate Sign Language Illiteracy in the six geopolitical Zones of Nigeria in order to include the hearing impaired who are totally excluded. ActivitiesSign Language Clubs targeting 500 pupils in each of six geopolitical zones will be made. Experts from churches will be hired to teach. We will provide sign language materials and books. Each student will them become a trainer to other Clubs. Funding InformationThis project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations. Additional DocumentationThis project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf). Why this Project is ImportantPotential Long Term ImpactHearing impairment will no longer be a handicap as a generation will all be sign language literates. Those with it become useful members of the society no longer isolated/ excluded. For now they lack communication, a vital weapon for survival. Project Message
About four million of our kits and kins in Nigeria cannot communicate with us, we must reach them by learning sign Language. Who is Running This ProjectContact
aku christy Orduh , Chief (Mrs.), Project SponsorAshoka Innovators for the Public (nominal) Organisation
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For more information about Nigeria, read the Human Development Report on Nigeria or the Wikipedia entry for Nigeria. When this Project was UpdatedLast UpdatedThis project was last updated on September 28, 2011. Date Added to GlobalGivingThis project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 06, 2008. Latest Update from the FieldProviding sign language to 3000 Nigerian pupils, The journey so farBy Chief Mrs Aku Christy Orduh - Executive Director, March 15, 2011 09:10 PM
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