Deaf Child Worldwide is the International Development arm of the National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS). It is the only UK based international development agency dedicated to enabling deaf children to overcome poverty and isolation. Deaf Child Worldwide currently supports projects in South Asia (India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka), East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), and South America (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru). It works alongside inclusive schools, NGO's and parents groups in the host countries to campaign for rights protection and positive change for deaf children and young people.
Deaf Child Worldwide's projects mainly focus on improving education for deaf children, improving communication within the family, providing home support, giving advice on reproductive health, encouraging community leaders and parents to advocate on behalf of deaf rights or a mixture of the above.
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“Who is so deaf or so blind as he
That wilfully will neither hear nor see?”
—16th century English proverb, collected in J. Heywood, Dialogue of Proverbs (1546)
“Someday soon, we hope that all middle and high school will have required courses in child rearing for girls and boys to help prepare them for one of the most important and rewarding tasks of their adulthood: being a parent. Most of us become parents in our lifetime and it is not acceptable for young people to be steeped in ignorance or questionable folklore when they begin their critical journey as mothers and fathers.”
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