NMSC launched Sign Language DEAFined to New Media Services employees

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Sarah Mamaril, Communications
sarah@nms-cares.org
+63 917 5195380 
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November 28, 2014, BAGUIO CITY – In celebration of Deaf Awareness Week, NMS Cares has launched its series of free Sign Language Workshops entitled “Sign Language Deafined”. This initiative is geared towards encouraging the active involvement of the hearing community with the Deaf community and is primarily targeted at the service providers found in any locality, such as hospitals, police stations, fire stations and government offices.

Program Manager, Ember Palma acquainting the NMS staff on Deaf culture.

To get the gears running on this initiative, NMSC started from within and conducted its first workshop to the New Media Services employees. The workshop had served its purpose not only to inform, but also to better acquaint all of the New Media Services employees with the Deaf employees onboard the NMSC team.  The workshop was made alive by the active participation of the NMS employees, who had learned not only how to sign using American Sign Language (ASL), but also got to have a better understanding of Deaf culture.

NMS employees learning ASL fingerspelling on Day 1 of the Sign Language Deafined Workshop.

A friendly competition on ASL ensued among the participants during the 2nd day of the workshop.

In the utmost effort to break communication barriers between the Deaf and the hearing community, NMSC shall continue to have its Sign Language DEAFined workshop to different service providers and government agencies in Baguio. 

Following the 2-day workshop, participants received certificates and better understood that Deafness is never a barrier.

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About NMS CARES

NMS CARES, INC. is a Philippine SEC-registered non-stock, non-profit association with a vision for Deaf children to reach their dreams. The organization fully commits to advocating for the Deaf children of the community while looking forward to expanding its service all throughout the less privileged young Deaf individuals in the Asia Pacific.

To know more about NMS CARES, please visit http://nms-cares.org or email us at info@nms-cares.org.