SWAZILAND VISIT

One of our staff members, mrs Mandie Pienaar, attended the 3rd Africa Workshop of the Africa Contact Group for Mental Health and Deafness in Swaziland. Deaf delegates from 39 African countries attended. It was a wonderful experience for her.

Some of the subjects under discussion were:

• Brief history of psychiatry
• Deaf people’s perspective of the UN Convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Difficulties in integrating Deaf people into Mauritanian society
• To improve the quality and standard of Deaf education and to expand opportunities for Deaf persons
• Access to Health Services for Deaf people: an experience from Uganda and UK
• Fundraising and resource mobilisation
• The importance of spiritual and moral training regarding education of the Deaf in Africa
• Improving literacy and numeracy for Deaf children in education
• Working together in Africa
• Methods and efforts for teaching the Muslim Deaf their religion
• The situation of the Deaf in Cameroon and other countries of the area