Barbra Nyangairi was at NTID today giving a talk titled "The Zimbabwe Context: Sign Language and Education for Deaf Children".
Barbra is a human rights activist, mother of a deaf child, and co-founded the Deaf Zimbabwe Trust (DZT) that aims to advance the rights of deaf people in Zimbabwe. Barbra described the cultural stigmas, lack of resources, and lack of awareness that mean Zimbabwean deaf people are marginalised and unable to access to education services and vocational opportunities. She also spoke of the moves that are being made to increase awareness of the potential of deaf people in Zimbabwe and described the inclusion of Zimbabwe Sign Language (ZSL) as an official language of Zimbabwe in its constitution.
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