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Providing Sign Language to 3000 Nigerian Pupils

Summary

This project provides 3000 pupils sign language skills which they will, over time transfer to other youths in Nigeria for the inclusion of hearing and speech impaired people. We will do this through progress reportread updates from the field


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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

We 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.

Activities

Sign 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 Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Hearing 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.
- Chief Boniface A.J. Orduh, Project staff

Who is Running This Project

Contact

aku christy Orduh , Chief (Mrs.),

Block 85, Flat 1, Phase 4
Adeniji Adele Road
Lagos Island, Isale Eko,Lagos Island. 101001
Nigeria
234 (01 ) 8023269577
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public (nominal)

Organisation

Friends of the Disabled
Oja- Oba, Isale Eko Off Adeniji Adele Road
Lagos Island, Lagos State 101001
Nigeria
234 01 08023269577
http://www.fotd.8m.net

Learn more about Friends of the Disabled and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Nigeria and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Nigeria, read the Human Development Report on Nigeria or the Wikipedia entry for Nigeria.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on September 28, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 06, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

Providing sign language to 3000 Nigerian pupils, The journey so far

By Chief Mrs Aku Christy Orduh - Executive Director, March 15, 2011 09:10 PM

Since this project took off from Lagos Zone, Western Nigeria,we have been able to replicate the sign language Clubs in Six schools. One in Kaduna,NW Zone, Two in Abuja North Central Zone,and three more in Lagos.We have a total of six Special teachers hired for the Club formation. We are grateful to our donors for the take off. We need a lot more support to sustain the teachers on monthly basis.

Our success story came when Lagos Government allowed us to establish the sign language Club in one of their schools as a pilot project. We hope to win their further interest to allow us more schools and to include sign language in their curriculum. In the pilot school a total of seventy hearing and speech impaired children have been liberated because they can now communicate and interact effectively with the hearing and speaking children.Integrtion is very important for this group of disabled persons and without others understanding them. They cannot belong.  Their developed skills cannot gain them employment or allow them successful business interactions.

Our problem here is the fact that this project does not get attention like projects on health and natural disaster appeals and yet a lot of people depend on its success to survive and be included in the mainstream of the society.

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