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Lahore Deaf Reach Training Center

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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.

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.


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.

Audio visual aids are used as effective teaching aides to reinforce and internalize concepts.After 4 months, new students complete a MS Word course, and proceed into Excel training.


Deaf students at work in Deaf Reach IT lab.

We find it necessary to have lots of review and reinforcement for our hearing impaired students, as their learning ability is oftentimes somewhat impaired, mostly due to ineffective schooling during their younger years.

During this time, we also work on improving their command of English and sign language.

Students receive certificates upon
course completion.

Teachers at our DRTC - Lahore

Junaid, also deaf, teaches computer
theory via sign language.

Nusrat (standing) teaching the women's
computer class.

We also have a job placement program, which allows many of our students to find reasonably well-paid employment, ranging from IT related to working in beauty salons. This alone continues to supply our students with hope for the future.


Individual graduates receiving their
certificates

Group of graduates holding up their
certificates

Other FESF Activities


FESF Lahore staff members: Mrs. Hope
Martin and Mr. Stephen Patrick with our
children's performing group at an institute
for the mentally handicapped in Lahore.

Former Project Manager Simon Martin
Appleton presenting a set of educational
video cassettes to the Director of an
institute for the physically handicapped
where FESF conducts educational projects.

Benefit programs and presentations at
schools for the handicapped and
disadvantaged


Volunteer teaching at institutes and
schools for the disadvantaged
throughout the Punjab

Happy orphans being presented with
sports equipment donated by a
local sponsor.

Donation of art supplies to one of the
institutions where we work.

Both teacher and students enjoy our
classes for the physically handicapped.

Learning through music and song.

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