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A grant from the United States (US) Embassy awarded to the Barbados Deaf and Hearing Impaired Community has provided Telecommuni-cations Devices for the Deaf (TDDs) for members of that association.
According to Secretary and Public Relations Officer (PRO), Roxan Kinas, the grant, which was awarded in August of this year, is a major stepping stone as it has allowed the organisation to purchase the TDDs so that they can communicate via the telephone.
Kinas said that it has been a desire of the organisation for sometime now, to get these devices for its members, so that their interaction is no longer limited to only face to face contact.
This, she said, is the biggest project that they have undertaken since their inception and it will also see family and friends of the members of the association being given the devices.
I think that will be an exciting time for the Deaf more than anything else when they get the opportunity to call family and friends and chat with them without having to leave their homes. They are very excited about the prospects that the project brings because they want to improve their lives, she told the Barbados Advocate.
Kinas explained that the allocation to family would be phase two of the project, and the third and final phase will see the devices allocated to the essential services, such as the ambulance, Barbados Fire Service, the Royal Barbados Police Force and the doctors who most care for the members of the organisation.
Currently, she explained that they are just into phase one, which has seen at least 20 of the 30 members of the organisation outfitted with the TDDs in their homes. However, she explained, one problem they have encountered is that some of the members do not have access to telephones in their homes and so now have to apply for the service.
She explained that accompanying the allocation of the TDDs is training in how to use them, which will be provided in all three phases of the project. The biggest challenge they expect to encounter, she explained, is to get the members of the organisation accustomed to using the devices as a means by which to communicate. :
A grant from the United States (US) Embassy awarded to the Barbados Deaf and Hearing Impaired Community has provided Telecommuni-cations Devices for the Deaf (TDDs) for members of that association.
According to Secretary and Public Relations Officer (PRO), Roxan Kinas, the grant, which was awarded in August of this year, is a major stepping stone as it has allowed the organisation to purchase the TDDs so that they can communicate via the telephone.
Kinas said that it has been a desire of the organisation for sometime now, to get these devices for its members, so that their interaction is no longer limited to only face to face contact.
This, she said, is the biggest project that they have undertaken since their inception and it will also see family and friends of the members of the association being given the devices.
I think that will be an exciting time for the Deaf more than anything else when they get the opportunity to call family and friends and chat with them without having to leave their homes. They are very excited about the prospects that the project brings because they want to improve their lives, she told the Barbados Advocate.
Kinas explained that the allocation to family would be phase two of the project, and the third and final phase will see the devices allocated to the essential services, such as the ambulance, Barbados Fire Service, the Royal Barbados Police Force and the doctors who most care for the members of the organisation.
Currently, she explained that they are just into phase one, which has seen at least 20 of the 30 members of the organisation outfitted with the TDDs in their homes. However, she explained, one problem they have encountered is that some of the members do not have access to telephones in their homes and so now have to apply for the service.
She explained that accompanying the allocation of the TDDs is training in how to use them, which will be provided in all three phases of the project. The biggest challenge they expect to encounter, she explained, is to get the members of the organisation accustomed to using the devices as a means by which to communicate. :