Bahraini Deaf Society holds annual Ghabga

TDT | Manama                                                   

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com    

Reported by Zahra Ayaz

The Bahraini Deaf Society (BDS) held its annual Ghabga ceremony in cooperation with the Bahraini Deaf Sports Club for the first time.

The BDS chairman of the board of directors, Hassan Abdullah Al Ghuraifi, attended the event and expressed gratitude to all those present. He also thanked Council of Representatives Speaker Ahmed bin Salman Al Musallam for being present.

He stated that the deaf in Bahrain suffers significant challenges and that just 2 per cent of persons with conditional disabilities are employed in institutions, with the deaf people being turned down on the grounds that they have communication issues.

“If the deaf individual is hired, he/she stays at the same position without advancement since he/ she is not sent to the training sessions needed to move up the professional ladder,” he said.

“Bahrainis who are deaf struggle to obtain high-quality hearing aids, translation costs, and alert devices for the deaf because they are solely dependent on little donations.”

He noted that these concerns with disabilities should be submitted to the parliament and acted upon, and he centered on the Kingdom of 2023 vision, expecting that the deaf would be included in it and be able to exercise their civil rights in the community.