Signs and wonders: new needs highlighted

This month’s work with Arua’s deaf community has highlighted two needs.

First to encourage their hearing relatives to partner those we support too, even if only the distant relatives are supportive. We are making a renewed effort to do this. It is definitely raising the deaf students’ performance, and the relative’s expectations of them.

Secondly, we are seeing the need to seek ways to raise the literacy levels of unemployed deaf youth. This is proving crucial to them gaining/holding onto training and jobs.