Lahore Deaf Reach Training Center


Deaf Reach addresses the need for vocational training for the hearing impaired. Few schools besides Family Educational Services Foundation exist to meet the special needs of the deaf community and there is little or no availability of vocational training for them. The goal of the Lahore Center is to improve skills sufficiently enough to give the deaf a better prospect of employment and becoming self supporting.

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 It vocational training.
 Deaf students learning English.

In 2007 Family Educational Services Foundation expanded their Deaf Reach Training Center (DRTC) facility in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, allowing capacity for 160 hearing-impaired students per shift, as opposed to the previous shift capacity of 60.

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Inauguration ceremony of new DRTC facility. Students learning in the new Lahore IT lab.

The FESF IT lab includes a server and networking facility, plus email and internet facilities for the students to utilize.

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Deaf students showing their appreciation.