Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sign language interpreters from Gulu City and Amuru District have been equipped with skills to debunk misinformation and fake news circulated on social media spaces. Willy Chowoo, the Head of Training and Digital Content at Content Tech Media (CT Media) in Gulu city says …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Old Kampala Mosque has secured employed a sign language interpreter to enable the hearing impaired during prayers. In the past, the hearing impaired were never given priority leaving many stuck during Friday prayers. Hajji Nasser Ssebugwawo, the sign language interpreter and a teacher at Uganda …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of State for Gender, Labour and Social Development (Disability Affairs), Hellen Asamo, has called on MPs to support the education and sports ministry to staff schools with sign language interpreters. “As we count on your deliberate affirmative actions during legislation and appropriation, my ministry …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu District COVID-19 Taskforce is using sign language experts to sensitize persons with hearing impairment in the district. This comes after the district leaders representing persons living with disabilities complained about excluding the deaf during the sensitization on COVID -19. Charles Arum, one of the …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Persons living with disability in Gulu district are demanding for sign language interpreters involved in the sensitization exercise on COVID -19. Their concerns come after no sign language interpreter has been included among the team going out to sensitize the local community on COVID -19. …
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