The Hindu : New Delhi News : A unique initiative for the deaf

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Saturday, May 20, 2006

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A unique initiative for the deaf

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: To facilitate meetings between young boys and girls with hearing impairment so that they are able to find their life partners, the Delhi Foundation of Deaf Women on Friday organised a "Pranay Milan Sammelan" in which over 200 young persons with such disabilities participated.

Seeking to help these youngsters find "instant" alliances that may last them a lifetime, the meeting brought together a large number of youth who might not have found "love at first sight" but surely would have come across members of the opposite sex they would like to marry.

The big meeting had a big objective in mind: helping these youngsters with impairments to lead a normal life by giving them an opportunity to find a life partner. This is the 14th year that the Foundation has organised such a meeting.

The Foundation was set up in 1973 by four women, three of them with hearing impairment, and has been steadily working to integrate these differently-abled people into the mainstream. From arranging meeting for matrimonial purposes to getting hearing impaired women to stand on their own feet economically, the Foundation has been slowly trying to achieve its purpose.

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