A LETTER TO THE HONORABLE MINISTER FOR YOUTHS AND SPORTS DEVELOPMENT @SundayDareSD
Dear Sir,
I am constrained to make this an open letter to you because of the current situation surrounding the upcoming National Sports Festival.
Secondly, the first few letters that were sent
I, therefore, plead again for you to look into this matter with utmost importance because so many Deaf and Para athletes' livelihoods as well as their dignity are dependent on this decision.
Do you know that deaf children face a lot of challenges in reaching their full potential?
Communicating with other children in their peers, outside the school environment, parents, siblings as well as other community members is a daily hassle
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few trained individuals.
The (ICS) School Based Project seek to bridge the gap of communication and stop stigmatization by raising awareness on the use of sign language among school children, knowledge of the deaf culture and channeling the visibility through mural painting
As the communication gap between the deaf people, their hearing family and their immediate communities in Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. A high level of unconscious stigmatization of deaf persons in Nigeria is caused by the inability to exchange information with people except
Lets take you through, from the START of our first offline sign language training, to the last one, for this cycle.
A cycle of making the world of communication a better place, with your language and sign language. The last of the training gives us, the beginning of our
It has recently evolved to what we now know as the "I Can Sign" (ICS) School and Family Based Project.
Stay tuned to know more and how to get involved!
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The ICS project is a pilot project of CODAH which started in 2019 with a mission to spread the knowledge of the Sign language and reduce the level of stigmatization the deaf and hard of hearing people experience daily in our society, Nigeria.
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Through this project we have been able to train over 500 people on the basics of the Sign language, the Deaf culture, Social Inclusion+Gender as well as Child protection and Safe guarding.
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So this team came with the voice 😃 🔥🔥
How about their signing skill? 😉👏
CODAH Volunteers Workshop 2021, Sign language evaluation session
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You don't have to hear, to have fun💃🔥. Still on the evaluation matter!
Learning to communicate with the deaf, can also be through art and music 🎶.
Oya every one gather round and tell us what you think, remember its still the teams spirit, and we are keeping it alive.
And we finally come to the end of the Volunteers Workshop for this years ICS project 😃.
Think its the end? it's actually just the beginning👏
Keep your eyes on this space as we begin to unfold greatness.
To our new volunteers, welcome on board.#volunteers#globalgoals#icansign
Just a day left to wrap up our 5 long week CODAH Volunteers Workshop, it has been a journey of guided learning and building capacity of each volunteer in order to be able to diligently carryout and fulfill their role on the "I Can Sign" School Based Project (ICS)
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We haven't gone cold, this is just the beginning of many more to come,until everyone appreciates the sign language. Sign Language is not A barrier, it is a bridge!! A big bear 🐹Hug, for whomever tells us what she's signing🌟💝💝🔥
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