Asmara, 6 February 2012 – At an assessment meeting it conducted, the branch of the Eritrean Association of The Deaf in Central region said that endeavors to ensure equal opportunity for hearing-impaired nationals have registered encouraging outcome.

In a report she presented, by the Chairperson of the Association, Ms. Nazret Musa, indicated that various training programs were organized focusing on culture, communicable diseases and laws to raise their awareness, in addition to  skill-upgrading training courses. In this respect, 20 hearing-impaired citizens received training on tailoring, she added.

Ms. Nazret further explained that over 600 deaf citizens have been organized in the association following research, and that efforts are underway to enable them to become beneficiaries of education and training programs.

The participants of the meeting on their part held extensive discussion and expressed appreciation to the Ministry of Information for commencing sign language news broadcast on Eri-TV which was interrupted for a while.

The branch office of the National Eritrean Association of The Deaf in the Central region was set up in 2003 and has 1,500 members.