The Deaf In Vietnam . . . Unreached Lives

Deaf Training Centers

The primary objectives of the deaf training centers would be to:

1.  Teach sign language to improve communication at home and later on their jobs.  As they graduate the program and return to their homes this will also increase the knowledge of sign language throughout the deaf community.

2.  Teach basic education skills (reading, writing, math)

3.  Teach life skills.  Many of the deaf children have limited exposure to the hearing community and need to learn basic skills that are normally taught hearing children by family and community.

4. Teach some vocational skills and informal vocational training.

5. Self sufficient program.  We have begun a bakery operation for the purpose of training deaf young people in bakery skills.  This is a working bakery whose products are sold to help fund the ongoing expenses of the deaf sign language and vocational training programs.  We are in need of further startup capital.  All donations are tax deductible.

We are have opened a Western Bakery and coffee shop in which we can train deaf but that also will be a working bakery to supply the growing interest for Western bakery products.  Right now they can only be found in the two largest cities: Hanoi and Saigon.  The planned bakery can soon begin to provide skill training to learn baking skills and then income for a few deaf and then later will support other deaf work.  The long term goal is to teach sign language, basic education, life skills and other vocational training.  The bakery can then support these programs for the most needy deaf children that never had an opportunity to go to school or evern learn sign language.  Well it is time to move forward on this vision.  It will begin as a Christ centered training center, bakery and coffee shop. 

The first step is the coffee shop which is now open.  The Vietnamese love coffee.  There are coffee shops everywhere that sell their super strong but quite bitter Vietnamese coffee.  Western style coffee, espresso, latte, cappuccino is getting very popular now in Saigon  and Hanoi.  Of course all the tourists are looking for a good cappuccino, which is at this time not available here in Da Nang.

1. We have found a building that will be suitable for our needs.  We  are renting it for about $500.00/month.
 

2.  We need commercial kitchen equipment to begin the bakery.  Donations of funds or equipment would help us greatly.  Use email link to let us know what you could do to help.       

3.  We now have due to the generous donation of many of you tables. chairs and dishes to serve cafe style.  We have a cappuccino machine to serve to our customers good espresso coffees due to the kind donation from a group of churches in France.
 

4. We will need bunk beds, bedding for residential students from the countryside.  We will need student desks, to begin the sign language training.

(budget can be provided upon request)

Local deaf have been trained and will be used to teach sign language to children. This program not only changes the lives of the deaf, but the lives of their families and the shop owners for whom they work.

With your help we can teach sign language, basic education and vocational  training  at a  center for the deaf.