“Really? Send my deaf child to school? What’s next after schooling? Could she get a job?” Parents often ask questions like these when our teachers and staff visit the homes of deaf children to recruit them to school. Convincing a family to send their child to school has never been easy. Most parents are doubtful and unaware of their deaf …
IDEA has been providing avenues of employment for the Deaf in Bohol for three decades now through IDEA initiated Employment and Income Generating Projects (EIGPs). These employment opportunities include the Garden Café, Dao Diamond Hotel and Restaurant, IDEA Café and Pension House, Fly Tying Industry, and Hammer and Nails Livelihood Center, Inc. These facilities not only provide employment for the deaf but they …
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Beeeeeeeeeeeeppppppp. . . . . . A speeding motorcycle came screaming down the street toward Junry as he was cautiously pulling his scooter across the road on his way home from work. He didn’t hear the horn warning him to get out of the way. Maybe out of annoyance, the speeding motorist decided to pull in front of Junry’s motorcycle …
One of IDEA’s Employment and Income Generating Projects (EIGPs) is the construction shop, now officially named Hammer and Nails Livelihood Center, Inc. (HNLC). The majority of its employees were once our deaf-student beneficiaries. Now, the number of our deaf graduates is undeniably increasing and it comes with IDEA’s increasing need to find employment for the skilled Deaf. IDEA is seeking …
Here is our October 2016 Newsletter.
