A Summer Camp to Integrate Hearing-Impaired Pupils With Their Peers

(Ramallah, 1 /7/2012): The 'PRCS Summer Camp 2012’ has been launched at PRCS headquarters in Al Bireh with a view to integrating hearing-impaired pupils with their peers. The camp, organized with the support of the Qatar Red Crescent Society and the Danish Red Cross Youth, aims at highlighting sign language and the Total Communication Program. It also promotes positive initiatives, voluntary work and stress and emotional release through a series of useful and playful activities.

Around 150 boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 14 are taking part in this ten-day camp supervised by teachers with skills ranging from drawing to First Aid and sport psychology. They are assisted by several PRCS volunteers (some of them hearing-impaired) and facilitators from various areas in the West Bank.

According to Ahmad Abou Zeid, Camp Coordinator and psychologist at PRCS’ Rehabilitation Department: “This camp is very important on the long run. It shall help in the social integration of hearing-impaired pupils. Children attend the camp from 8:30 till 13:30 and take part in diverse events and activities during which they are divided by facilitators and supervisors into groups which are given names fancied by children. Activities include drawing, dabkeh dancing, handicrafts, First Aid, morning sports, sport psychology, sign language classes and group games”.