What are the prevailing attitudes of the community for the deaf?
There is general lack of awareness and acceptance towards the deaf. Many deaf children often feel isolated even in their own families. Girls and women often times feel doubly disadvantaged because of the lack of proper educational facilities and because of the poor marriage prospects. Men with hearing impairment who have paid work can find women with good hearing as marriage partners. Usually parents who have many daughters in the family, or are poor, are willing to marry off their daughter to a deaf man considering the financial security that they can provide. However it is rare to see men with good hearing opting to marry women with no or poor hearing. This is why we are supporting the employment of deaf female teachers in the Afghan Association of the Deaf to ensure that deaf girls in future will have better possibilities in the labour market and more success in their private lives. You can have more information about the Afghan National Association of the Deaf through their web pag
