Internet for deaf children in Sierra Leone
A new world has opened up for the children of St. Joseph’s school for the Deaf in Makeni, Sierra Leone. A team from the Lion Heart Foundation, an organisation established to help improve medical care in developing countries, with the aim of achieving independence.
The team has installed a satellite disk and receiver so now the Internet is available for all 220 pupils aged 3 to 18 years old at the school.
Children from all over the country attend the school, which is run by the sisters of St. Joseph of Chuny. The Sierra Leone Humanitarian Organisation in Rotterdam, Holland donated 25 computers to the children and the next step was to connect them to the Internet and open up a totally new world to them. Now this dream has come true and the children can communicate in another way other than sign language.
They can be educated by the many tutorial websites, use email and read the daily news. They can learn to use the computers, and the Internetwill help to give them more opportunities to find a job when they leave school. Read more about the Lion Heart Foundation.
