Sure Catch Fishing Products Continues to Grow
The employees run their own co-op and get to participate in the profits of the business. Part of our efforts to allow the deaf to be in control of their own futures.
what happened in 2015
what happened in 2015
YWAM Visitors Blessed With A New Perspective
Here at IDEA we often have the opportunity to host visiting mission teams. On January 2, 2015, seven wide eyed visitors bounced down the runway at the Tagbilaran airport and right into our lives. This team of young adults is the first ASL (American Sign Language) team to be dispatched to the Philippines by YWAM (Youth With A Mission).
what happened in 2015
Sagbayan Hope Village is Born
In December 2013 we received an email from members of the Major League Baseball Players Trust. They had heard about the earthquake on Bohol and wanted to help. Their generosity included money to repair four schools and to build 50 homes for victims who had lost their homes during the earthquake.
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2014 Was A Year of Recovery, Rebuilding and Rejoicing
Now that 2014 has come to a close we can look back on it as a time of rebuilding, recovering and rejoicing. We know that 2015 will also hold its share of triumphs and tragedies but we know that God has a plan for all these things and can turn disasters into blessings.
what happened in 2014
Taking the Show on the Road
This year’s vocational training at the Bohol Deaf Academy has gone to a whole new level. Every Wednesday and Friday our High School students are getting the opportunity to learn job skills that will help them to find employment for summer jobs and hopefully long term employment after they graduate. Part of the training for
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What is True Love?
For the past eight weeks 30 of our deaf couples and many singles attended a weekly Marriage Class taught by Don and Marie Hewett, missionaries who have lived here in the Philippines for 15 years and have taught marriage seminars for years.
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Determination At Its Finest
Having a disability, lack of tools or even a typhoon are not about to stop these young men! Typhoon Haiyan left devastation to IDEA’s dormitory for the Deaf in Ormoc City. The boy’s room suffered the worst damage with the roof blown off and bringing the electrical wiring along with it. IDEA brought in a
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Vocational Training Takes on a New Look
Through the help of our skilled workers and BDA teachers each student is able to learn how to use the tools needed to do the job and actually work on projects that need done for IDEA.
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IDEA Honored as a Modern-Day Hero!
IDEA PHILIPPINES WON THE NATIONAL MODERN-DAY HERO AWARD FOR THE INSTITUTIONAL CATEGORY!
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New Recruits
Throughout this past month our elementary teachers have been scouring the hills and towns searching for children who are deaf/hearing impaired and inviting them to come and be a part of our IDEA classrooms. This year on Bohol 32 students were identified between the ages of 5 and 13.