Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world: Rwanda (Rwanda)

Created 10 April 2000, links updated monthly with the help of LinkAlarm.

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map of Rwanda

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Deaf education & youth Organizations Rwandan Sign Language

Deaf education & youth

Where we do it > Rwanda - Antonia Eastman. Name: Antonia Eastman, Role: Special Education Resource Trainer, Butare Centre for Deaf and Mute Children, Location: Butare, Rwanda. The International Deaf ChildrenŐs Society recently noted that throughout Rwanda, there are negative attitudes towards deaf people and widespread ignorance about deaf peopleŐs abilities. There is also a lack of education facilities to train deaf leaders.

Organizations

NDCS. (2004, July 6). Links between Uganda National Association of the Deaf and the Rwanda National Association of the Deaf. This was an ad hoc project, which UNAD undertook on its own initiative following a request for support from the deaf people of Rwanda. Three members of the Ugandan Association of the Deaf visited Kigali in 1998 to visit the deaf survivors of one the worst and most barbaric massacres ever to befall an African country.

World Federation of the Deaf membership information: Rwanda National Association of the Deaf (RNAD). Contact info only. Scroll down to the country name.

Rwandan Sign Language

WASLI 2007 Issue 1. Scroll down to "REPORT ON THE TRAINING TO RWANDA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF (RNAD) 17TH TO 20TH OCTOBER 2006."

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