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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.
To add your school/class, please
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Cosmos High School in Windhoek, the
capital of Namibia Contact person: Retha Landsberg Age of students: 18 - 22 Since January 2008 Cosmos High School implemented Inclusive Education when 2 hearing impaired learners started in grade 11. The learners complete grade 10 at the Namibia Institute for Special Education - Hearing Impaired. At Cosmos High School they complete grade 11 and 12. Two interpreters are always present in all their classes. This year we have two learners in grade 12, Inocencia Agostinho and Kristofina Uahengo. Kristofina is also a member of the LRC (Learner Representative Council) Cosmos High School is located in the centre of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia in Southern Africa. We are 704 learners in the school from grade 8 to 12 (middle school plus high school). Windhoek has very moderate climate conditions and we never experience extreme conditions. The Namib desert starts about 150 Km from Windhoek and is one of the wonders of the world!!Here we get the highest dunes in the world. Click here to contact this school |
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Addis Ababa University sign language and
deaf culture study Person to contact: Tigist Negash Location: Ethiopia Ages of students: 19-35 The class began last September 2008 for the first time. The course focuses on sign language and deaf culture. At this time, the class contains 26 students. Out of this, 20 are deaf and the others are hearing students. The school is located at addis ababa around 6 killo. Click here to contact this school |
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Person to contact: Levent Akyel Location: Turkey Age of students: 6 - 16 We are a boarding school for the deaf at the primary school level. Our students came from the region of Edirne, İstanbul and Tekirdağ, which is the Marmara Sea region of Turkey. We have done various international projects and we are looking forward for attending new projects. We can communicate in English and Bulgarian. Our school is located close to the Greek and Bulgarian borders of Turkey, in the beautiful city of Edirne. Edirne is considered to be the door of Turkey that opens into Europe. Click here to contact this school |
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Person to contact: Kidane Admasu Location: Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Age of students: 18 to ..... Our School, Addis Ababa University, gives a regular program in sign language and deaf culture by BA Degree. It is located in Addis Ababa , the capital city of Ethiopia. Click here to contact this school |
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Location: Russia, City of Omsk
Age of students: 14-15 year old
There are 152 pupils learning at our
school. The school is for the deaf persons. There are 11
persons in our 7а group. Some boys go in for
football and volleyball. Girls like volleyball too. Two guys
are engaged in drawing and computer graphics at an arts school.
There are 6 girls in our group and 5 boys. City of Omsk is situated in the Western Siberia. Two rivers flow through the city: Irtysh and Omj. There are many theaters, museums, and monuments in the city. "Avanguard" hockey team is very well known in Russia as it was the champion of Russia. Omsk gymnast girl E. Kanaeva - is an Olympic Champion.
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Person to contact: MARGARET ODHIAMBO Location: MUMIAS (WESTERN KENYA) Ages of students: 3-24years My school has about 500 kids. The number is still increasing hence congested facilities. there is need for upgrading of facilities to enable the kids learn effectively. the school is divided into primary section, vocational section and special class section. it also cater for the early childhood education(kindergarten). The school has been lobbying for financial aids to help in putting up dormitories to accommodate the rising number of the kids as they share beds which are congested in small dormitories. This also applies to classrooms. The school is in western province of kenya about 500Km from Nairobi,from Kisumu it is about 2hours drive. You pass kakamega then take a left turn to mumias town.it is located near st. mary's hospital before reaching mumias town Click here to contact this school |
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Person to contact: BENARD OCHIENG MULAMA Name of school: St. Mary primary school for the Deaf Nyangoma Location: BONDO DISTRICT,NYANZA PROVINCE-KENYA Ages of students: 7-21 years old
The school is called St. Mary primary school
for the Deaf Nyangoma, it is the first Deaf school in Kenya.classes
starts from Nursery Infancy to class 8 with 2 streams each class.
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Person to contact: Terena meingin Name of school: NEOSHO Growrhet college Place: Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia
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Person to contact: Alejandra Renjifo
Name of school: corporacion educativa popular Place: Colombia Ages of students: Only me 14
This is great as
we are taught to make friends and gain insight. I do hope to know
you all. I live in the south part of the city.
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Person to contact: Pastor Austine Otieno
Name of school: Maseno School for the Deaf Place: Kisumu, Kenya Ages of students: 6-19years The school was started by the missionaries in 1976. The school has over 200 deaf students. It also has deaf-blind childrens. Most of these children are from poor families and are orphans. Mostly affected are Deaf-blind children. They really need to be helped with fees and facilities for education. The school is on along the Kisumu to Busia road. It is near Maseno University, about 3km from Kisumu. Click here to contact this school |
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Person to contact: Oliver Otieno Place: Nakuru, Kenya Ages of students: between yrs 6 to 18 It is a public school located within Nakuru town. Most of our learners are collected from the streets. Some of the parents do not want to accept the fact that their children are actually hard of hearing. The government is also not able to give adequate support. They want the parents to supplement. However most parents are not able due to their financial inability. The learners are very interested to learn. they are very friendly and very willing. They love visitors a lot. Our school is located within a 10acr land within Nakuru town Kenya. Click here to contact this school |
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Person to contact: Sevdelina
Djongarska Place: Bulgaria School for deaf children and kindergarten Ages of students: 2-20 My school is a biggest in east Europe and in Bulgaria. We recive students of all parts of the country. My school is situated in Sofia, nearly a montain Vitosha. Click here to contact this school |
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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. Click here to contact this school |
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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). Click here to contact this school
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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. Click here to contact this school |
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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. Click here to contact this school |
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Contact person: Celi Selma Rodrigues 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. Click here to contact this school
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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. Click here to contact this school |
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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. Click here to contact this school |
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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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  Click to see large photos. 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. Click here to contact this school |
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| School name: Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus School
for the Deaf, Hosanna. Contact person: Zerihun Hailemariam |
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