Friendship School Program

These are schools or classes for deaf and hearing impaired students that would like to be in contact with other schools around the world to share friendship and culture. 

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Person to contact:  Mae Riccah Nikka Monteron
Place:  pasay city (Philippines) Philippine School for the Deaf
Age of students:  16 years old
Philippine school for the deaf is located at Pasay City, Philippines. We have twelve students in our class.
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Person to contact: Ashley
Place:  USA
Number of students: 17
Well our school is not deaf but we are doing a big project about countries and my country is ghana i would like to know little about it so i can do it for my asl class. I would like to know how many school do you have for your deaf school, educaion of the deaf  teacher training deaf teacher communcation method technology tty's signalers cochlear implants tv accessibility captioning etc, history that affect deaf education and life, interpreter serices deaf life any restrictions social cultura; job opportunities
we are in the usa

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Person to contact: Giovanna Saettone
Place: Borghetto S. S (Savona), LIGURIA, Italy
Age of Students: 13/14 years old
Number of students: 2 classes of 16 students each (32 students in all)
 
Study of English, French and Spanish
Desire to know more about other countries' cultures
Possibility to exchange individual letters, pictures, videos...

Lessons started from September 17th.

Our location:  Little seaside village, close to Alassio and to San Remo (LIGURIA).

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Contact person:  Richie doku
Akropong Akwapem Ghana

My school is a college for hearing students but we have five deaf students in the college. We use sign language in class with an interpreter and some of our hearing friends also learn sign language because they are interested.

My school is in Ghana, West Africa. It is in the eastern part of Ghana in Akropong Akwapem on a mountain which has cool weather every day.

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Contact person:  John Ronald Villegas Campoverde
calicuhima entrecarchi y tulcan/ Guayaquil/ Ecuador

Hi, I am the president of a new association of parents of deaf children. Our goal is to get them hearing aids, and also to get ourselves trained so we can help our children achieve success.

Our school is in Ecuador's province of Guayas, which belongs to the Guayaquil municipality, it accepts students between 10 months to 15 years old.  There are 250 students currently enrolled, the school was founded 50
years ago.

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School name: Centre for hearing impaired children
Contact person: Aurelija Cepukiene
Siauliai, Lithuania

Age of students: 2-20 years old

We have children with normal hearing in 3 pre-school groups and children with hearing impaired in pre-school group and 6 classes. We want to find friends in another schools for deaf.
Our centre is located in the centre of town near the lake.

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Contact person:  Celi Selma Rodrigues
Ariquemes - Rondônia
BRAZIL

Three students between 9 and 11 years old

Since we are a school in the outskirts, we have no Brazilian sign language teachers. We just have a few notions of it and try to interact with them the best we can. We have had a few classes on sign language, but we need more. Much more.

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Country: Uruguay

Age: older than 18 years

We are people over 18, students and employees, high school teachers, psychologists, etc., studying the sign language for helping the deaf hearing society. Non of us is deaf, we all are hearing people. Our teacher is deaf and she travels in order to give us classes all Saturdays.

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Country:   Kyrgyzstan

I study at the University. My future specialty is teaching the deaf.  My native parts are
town of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
 
There are 2  nurseries and 2 schools in town of Bishkek. They are not especially huge but good and cozy, and we often do practical work there. They are situated near a park or in a quiet locality.

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Contact person:  Paola Amsteins Cordero

Curico, región 7  , Chile , South America

We are the only school in this province since 1994, providing education for people with hearing impairments. We teach the sign language to people between 6 months to 18 years old. Our aim is to give our best to our pupils.
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Association ABEDeS BENIN

Cotonou ( Republic of Benin)

Age of student: 6 to15 years old

Our school was just formed with its first class, which is a case study. The work has started and by next year we will move on to the second class in a more orderly fashion.
Our school is located in Cotonou at Godomey, a region in Benin in which education for the hearing impaired is almost nonexistent.
It is a primary school.

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School name:  Institute for Deaf, Warsaw, Poland.

Contact name:  Joanna Lacheta

I teach the third grade in the middle school for deaf in Warsaw, Poland.  There are 5 people in the class, boys only.  My school has a long history - was established in 1817 by a priest Jakub Falkowski.  This is a very nice school with the dormitory.  We also have a pre-school, elementary school, high school and a trade school.  We are curious to find out who will contact us, will there be another school for deaf?

Greetings from 3rd Grade.


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School name:  Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus School for the Deaf, Hosanna.

Contact person:  Zerihun Hailemariam

Location:  Southern Nation and Nationalities people Region,  Hosanna , Ethiopia
Student ages: 7-21

The School is going to celebrate its 25th Year anniversary in November 2006. It has Preparatory class for beginners and then Grade 1-8  which is Elementary school and Grade 9-10 a high school. The school gives academic Education and vocational Education. It is a residential School taking deaf children from all over the country except the western part of Ethiopia where they go to our second school at Nekemte.

The school is located in Southern region 232 km south of the capital city Addis Ababa in Hosanna. Hosanna is a small town. The school is opened here not because of many deaf in the area but the availability of place to open in the church area

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