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About
1.2 million people of Bangladesh whatever may be the
reasons, are reportedly Deaf & Hearing Impaired. The
nation can not thrive properly keeping these disabled people
on the side track. With a view to training the Deaf &
Hearing Impaired children to learn to speak and to giving
them education with an ultimate goal to integrate them to
the mainstream education systems of the country, Hicare a
society for education and care of hearing impaired children
of Bangladesh was established in 1980. |
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Hicare embarked upon to do something for these hearing impaired children and phase by phase established 11 Hicare schools at different places of Bangladesh for providing them with education and 4 hearing centers for all sorts of audiological tests and supply of hearing aids and accessories.
Since inception of the schools. 1300 Deaf & Hearing Impaired children got admission of which about 600 students have already been integrated to main stream education. Some of them are in college / university for higher education and quite a few of them are already established in the society as useful citizens as architects, information technologists etc.
This ability for integration to normal schools is a milestone of
Hicare. Without Hicare’s help these students would have remained dumb and mute for ever being burden on the family/society nay on the country.
These few Schools and the Hearing Centres are hardly sufficient to meet the requirement. Hicare has plans to open more schools and hearing centres but for lack of awareness amongst the common people about the problem and for fund constraints, it has not been possible to proceed further with the implementation of the plans. Hicare wants to tackle situation if funds are made available and positive response from local enthusiasts and entrepreneurs are forthcoming.
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