{"id":8744,"date":"2025-09-27T12:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/?p=8744"},"modified":"2025-09-27T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:46:50","slug":"thank-you-mbarara-international-week-of-deaf-people-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/2025\/09\/27\/thank-you-mbarara-international-week-of-deaf-people-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Mbarara \u2014 International Week of Deaf People 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8744\" class=\"elementor elementor-8744\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-702d0118 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"702d0118\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7d6bf627\" data-id=\"7d6bf627\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e704341 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e704341\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Thank You, Mbarara \u2014 International Week of Deaf People 2025<\/strong><\/p><p>We marched. We learned. We signed. And together, we turned inclusion into everyday practice!<\/p><p><strong>What we accomplished:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>Access in practice: UgSL coaching for frontline teams; public lectures on grant pathways and URA registration\u2014so support doesn\u2019t stall at the counter.<\/li><li>Culture &amp; community: performances, poems, and a full Independence Grounds celebrating Deaf leadership.<\/li><li>Showcase of solutions: partners demo\u2019d tools and services that make access real.<\/li><li>Sport that needs no translation: Bright Stars Deaf FC 8\u20131 Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST).<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Gratitude<\/strong><br \/>To the Ministry of Gender, Labour &amp; Social Development, deaf communities and families; Mbarara City leadership; Hon. Hellen Asamo; Hon. Alex Ndeezi; CDO Mirabel, Mbarara City Association of the Deaf, Uganda Revenue Authority, SHERINAH&#8217;s New HOPE for Children with Disability Ministry, The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Christian Blind Mission (CBM) National Association of Parents of Deaf Children, KPM Entertainment Foundation, Bank of Uganda, Smiley, Signs &amp; Talks, Support Disabled Uganda (SDU), The Norwegian Association of Disabled, National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda and special thanks to The Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and GFA Consulting Group for their support throughout the week.<\/p><p><strong>Keep the momentum!<\/strong><\/p><p>Review the week on our website: <a href=\"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit the Recap<\/a><\/p><p>Make your support visible: Stand with us and <a href=\"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/#wall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign the Solidarity Wall<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Hands up, barriers down\u2014let\u2019s carry this forward!<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, has called on the government to increase investment in social protection, economic empowerment, and educational programs that directly support Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8760,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions\/8760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unadeaf.or.ug\/IWDP2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}