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ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND                                                    Syangja Association of the Deaf (SYAD)

BACKGROUND''' ''' Syangja district is located under the Western Development Region of Nepal. Its neighboring districts are Tanahu in the East, Parbat in the West, Kaski in the North and Palpa in South. With an objective to safeguard the rights and defined development of the deaf and hard of hearing people in this district Syangja, Syangja Association of the Deaf (SYAD) was established in the year 17th September 2005.

According to Nepal Act of 2034 BS of organization registration, SYAD has been registered at Syangja District Administration office with number 1031. Similarly, SYAD is registered under Social Welfare Council of Nepal Government with number 19341. With Registration number 21, SYAD has been able to obtain the membership of National Deaf Federation Nepal, Kathmandu where is national member of World Federation of the Deaf (WFD).

It is a non profit making organization for the rehabilitation of the deaf including and also one of non government organizations with disabilities. According to 2058 BS census 317,360 is the population of this district where 1% or more than 3000 people are deaf. In this district, there are 60 village development committees plus 2 Municipalities. Syangja is also considered as educationally, economically, socially and culturally backward district of Nepal.

Under such situation, SYAD's mission is to advocate for the development, promotion, equal rights and rehabilitation of the deaf who are living under miserable backward and discarded situation within this district.

Similarly, to response and resolve various problems and challenges with sustainable approaches with teaching Nepali Sign Language (NSL), providing employment oriented skills for self reliance are the perseverance of SYAD. One deaf has all the capabilities like others except the barrier of hearing and speaking. Nepali Sign language is the mother tongue of a deaf person and it has become a necessity in communication access. Therefore, sheltering the rights of all the deaf of the district, like other normal people through the implementation of development activities is the main goal of this organization. The main objective of SYAD is to associate with Local, National, International organizations and Individuals, raise fund and correct use in the development of the deaf lives.

Fourth General Assembly Meeting of 2012 formed its Executive Committee for 2 years as follows: Executive Committee (i)         Mr. Dipak Pokhrel                                                  President (ii)         Mr. Sanjeeb Shrestha                                           Vice-President (iii)        Mr. Surya Prasad Paudel                                    General Secretary (iv)       Mr. Manoj Shrestha                                              Treasurer (v)         Mr. Chandi Kaple                                                  Member (vi)       Mr. Sher Bahadur Karika                                     Member (vii)      Ms. Pramita Dhakal                                              Member (viii)    Ms. Sunita Thapa                                                 Member (ix)        Mr. Kul Prasad Bhattrai                                        Nominated Member (x)         Mr. Ishwar Shrestha                                             Advisor (xi)        Mr. Surya Mohan Baral                                        Advisor (xii)      Mr. Rajendera Prasad Sharma                           Advisor

The elected executive board of SYAD for 2012 - 2014

2. OBJECTIVES (i)   Continuous effort in social, economical, cultural, educational, physical and intellectual environment development for the Deaf person. (ii)  Providing vocational skill trainings to make Deaf people self- reliance and   create   an access of employment opportunity. (iii)      Always endeavor in the welfare, human rights and occupational security of the Deaf persons (iv) Elimination of Deaf discrimination through social awareness programs (v)       Establishment of rehabilitation welfare fund to response the issues of Deaf economical setback and unemployment (vi) To build educational empowerment and opportunity to the Deaf children in the Deaf institute and produce their professional occupation and human resource in the lives. (vii)      Founding of a research center to discover the situation, problems and challenges of the Deaf issues. (viii)  Coordinating with local, national and international organizations inclusive of Government line agencies for the cooperation and support

3.          ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS

Following are the activities and programs to accomplish organizational objectives:

(i)         Fund raising for financial strengthening to conduct organizational activities ; such as lottery operation program and seek to operate programs related to donation support etc. (ii)       Running Nepali Sign Language (NSL) training to eradicate Deaf illiteracy. (iii)     Raising people awareness related to Deaf issues in rural and urban areas of this district. (iv)     Data recording of the Deaf over village development committees and municipalities of Syangja district (v)       Leadership training for capacity building of the Deaf (vi)     Internal and external resource gathering for operating organizational activities (vii)   Income generation and skill development trainings for deaf employment (viii)   Safe guard language, culture and human rights of the deaf (ix)       Scholarship access for deprived deaf children (x)        Operating sports and games for healthy body and mind

4.  PROBLEMS AND CHALLANGES

(i)           Absence of sufficient interpreters for communication access of the Deaf persons (ii)          Shortage of continuous and reliable financial resources (iii)        Lack of its own land and office building enforce  the organization to operate its activities from a rented house (iv) Inadequate awareness access of media in the villages and municipalities of the district (v)         Irregular scholarship program in the education of the deaf children (vi)       Absence of Nepali sign language ( NSL) trainings for elderly deaf of the distant villages (vii)        No environment of effective trainings for the Deaf (viii)  No provision of Deaf employment in trading houses, industries and government organizations (ix)        Absence of community support in the safeguard of Deaf rights

5.   ACHIEVEMENTS

(i)            Implementation of annual Lottery program (ii)         Acquired personal land for Deaf school (iii)        Set up a temporary Deaf school building in Badkhola in support of          District Education Office, Syangja. (iv)   Establishment of SYAD office in rent with the support of District Development office (v)          Inauguration of six months Nepali Sign Language training with awareness program (vi)        Accomplishment of Annual General Assembly every year. (vii)  Formulation of various project proposals and in the process of submission to donors

6. FUTURE PLAN

(i)              Establishment of the construction of SYAD Secretariat. (ii)           Arrangement of permanent a skilled Interpreter staff (iii)  Data collection of deaf in the remained village development committee (VDC)s of  Syangja district (iv) Provide Scholarship program for deprived, competent and backward deaf children. (v)    Set up a Permanent Deaf school building under Deaf space system. (vi)     Include mainstreaming resource centers for the Deaf student in Deaf school under SYAD. (vii)       Provide Basic Nepali Sign Language training for elderly Deaf in the distant villages (viii)      Advocate for setting up the law of Deaf right and communication access.

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