Noble ‘DEEDS’ for a cause

Noble ‘DEEDS’ for a cause DEEDS, an NGO that works for the betterment of the hearing impaired individuals, recently participated in the Women Entrepreneurs Exhibition organised by the Ladies Wing of Indian Merchants’ Chamber by exhibiting products like jewellery pouches, wine bags, gift envelopes, etc. made by the students with hearing impairment. The exhibition will be inaugurated today with the rendering of the National Anthem in India Sign Language by the students of DEEDS. The journey of DEEDS started 16 years ago with the building of a Special School for Deaf – Bajaj Institute of Learning (BIL) at Dehradun. The Special School for Deaf is one of India’s premier institutes in the country, offering free education and vocational training to the Deaf from pre-primary to Standard XII free of cost. And now with the building of a 100 bed hostel, BIL can now offer residential facilities to hearing impaired students pan India. DEEDS has strived to make it a better world for the hearing impaired by educating them, giving them training and empowering them with appropriate job placements. In Mumbai, DEEDS started with the setting up of Basic English Literacy Courses for Deaf youth and for students in special schools for Deaf. The DEEDS Tailoring Institute is a one of its kind in Mumbai which offers training in tailoring to women with hearing impairment. Till date, DEEDS has benefited 13500 hearing impaired youth to live a better quality of life and given suitable job placements to over 1300 such youths.