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We are pleased to share that our Annual Report 2024 is now published and ready for you to explore. This year’s report reflects on the progress we've made and the impact of our work to support deaf and hard-of-hearing children around the world.

In 2024, Kentalis International Foundation launched a multi-year research initiative in Kenya, Rwanda, and Malawi. Its goal is to explore whether a sign language-rich environment in early childhood can improve school readiness for deaf children. As part of this effort, a training week was recently held in Kigali, Rwanda.

We are extremely pleased to announce that the Reading Method for Early Literacy is now entirely available in French. Over the past few months, from June to September 2024, all training materials have been carefully translated to support French-speaking educators.

We are excited to announce that the Kentalis International Foundation Annual Report 2023 has been published and is now available for our community. This comprehensive report highlights our achievements, challenges, and the impactful work we have done over the past year to support individuals with hearing challenges.

Kentalis International Foundation is proud to announce the ongoing training of our Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) course in Zambia. Our team is currently on-site, delivering this training at local schools in Choma and Mazabuka.

Kentalis International Foundation, in collaboration with Bahir Dar University (BDU), successfully completed a transformative project aimed at enhancing the capacity of educators in Ethiopia. The initiative, which started in June 2023, focused on supporting the literacy development of children with hearing loss, and concluded in March with an on-location training.

As we approach the end of the year, Kentalis International Foundation is taking a moment to reflect on our accomplishments in 2023. Our primary objective was to enhance our e-learning platform, and we are thrilled to report that we have added a few new courses and made significant technical advancements. Additionally, we have completed several projects this year, which we are proud of.

Kentalis International Foundation has started offering online and blended learning for early literacy topics. Our updated e-learning Reading Method for Early Literacy (RMEL) is designed for teaching personnel who work with deaf or hard-of-hearing children. We are proud to report that the first groups of participants from Uganda and Ethiopia have started their RMEL course. Below are their

We are pleased to announce the successful completion of two of our long-term projects this summer. The first project aimed to create accessible digital teaching aids for deaf and hard-of-hearing children in Uganda, while the second project provided training and coaching on diagnostic testing for secondary-level students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing in Tanzania.

Last year eKitabu, an organization from Kenya, asked Kentalis International Foundation to develop a game-based assessment tool for Kenyan teachers to conduct sign language progress monitoring. After months of collecting, testing, and training this tool will be finalized at the end of July 2023. 

At the end of April 2023, our Aruban partner came to the Netherlands for a study visit within the framework of our early intervention project in Aruba. This project is focused on professionals working with children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing as well as children with a presumable developmental language disorder.  

The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2023 conference in Washington, D.C. surprised with a number of presentations that were related to Deaf education. It is good to see that inclusion plays an increasing role in international education programming.