talented men from around the State have found a home and
opportunity at Training Centre for the Adult Deaf in Santhome
The group of men and women at the Training Centre for the
Adult Deaf in Santhome has broken into a flurry of signs and urgent motioning.
You can sense that inside jokes are being cracked. This is in response to the
question, “Who is the best cook here?” and no one believes he/she deserves the
title.
The centre is home to 10 men, between the ages of 18 and 25,
from cities such as Salem, Erode, Coimbatore and Tirupur.
“We have come here because this city can give us a platform
to show our talents,” signs Manikandan, a 20-year-old from Thirupur, who’s been
here for the past one year. The centre’s PRO, Chitra Devi, acts as our
translator for the day. She also acts as a guardian for the four women students
of the centre, and stays with them at a rented house nearby.
The men and women here are trained in different areas such
as computer operations (data entry), sports including chess, badminton, and
athletics, designing and graphics, and on the weekends, photography and dance,
by volunteers. However its USP: the two-year fitter course for the deaf and
dumb, is the one that gets the maximum placements.
Training Centre for
the Adult Deaf can be reached at 24641035.
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