Our Impact
Our goal projects:
Faith, Love, Hope
Our goal is to raise cash donations under these projects:
Faith in the future
Hope for our school
We all have an expectation and desire for the school to be the best possible institution for our Deaf learners. In order to provide that, we need to support them with upgrading and establishment of special facilities and taking care of certain operating cost expenses.
Love to our children
Children are of great interest and pleasure to us, especially our disabled Deaf children. Unfortunately, many of the learners come from impoverished circumstances and we need to support them with basic needs e.g. food, clothing, maintenance and provision of hearing aids, school necessities and also in some cases accommodation in the boarding facilities and its necessities.
“Tell somebody and they might hear…
Show somebody and they might re-act…
Involve somebody and they will understand!”
– Alta Koekemoer
Just a few of our success stories
WINTER WARMER PROJECT
As part of our Winter Warmer project, Deafability hands over a donation of blankets to Transoranje School for the Deaf. Thanks to Hoërskool Overkruin for the #GROOTverskil that you’ve made to collect blankets for the community through your participation in the Groot FM – ‘Skool met die GROOTste G(ee)’ competition.
DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING MATERIAL FOR THE DEAF
The NPC secured funding from the NLC for the development of specially designed digital books for Deaf learners to enhance limited SASL educational material.
EXPAND VISUAL EQUIPMENT
Funding for this project also included the addition of visual equipment to the Multi-Media Centre, including iPads, Computers, big screen TV and other teaching equipment.
OTHER VISUAL EQUIPMENT
Several classrooms were fitted with interactive “E-beam” systems, projectors and whiteboards.
In some classrooms, the old chalkboards were resurfaced with whiteboards.
COVID PROTECTION MEASURES
To limit the spread of the Covid virus and to protect Transoranje learners and staff, various personal protective equipment was donated to the school including hand washing stations, face shields, sanitizer and sanitizer stands, masks, surface cleaner and others
FOOD DONATIONS
Secure food donations such as weekly ready meals for the hostel. Other groceries, vegetables and meat on occasion from different donors.
Bread for daily break-time sandwiches for needy learners.
About 85 hostel residents and 90 needy day scholars enjoy meals at the hostel every day.
NEW FURNITURE
New chairs was purchased for the hostel dining room.
FULL BAKERY
A fully-equipped bakery was set up in the Pre-Vocational phase for the learners to receive confectionery and bakery training.
AUDITORIUM
An Auditorium has been set up to provide an area for visual interactive sessions, meetings and training.
VISUAL TEACHING AIDS
Visual teaching aids such as an interactive whiteboard with e-beam, projector, soundbar, and laptop are fitted into some classrooms.
MULTI-MEDIA CENTRE
The old unused, outdated and insufficient library was upgraded to a new Multi-Media Centre. The Media Centre is special in the sense that all of its content has been hand-picked to suit the special needs for a learner with Deafness.
The Multi-Media Centre also includes a Museum that preserves the heritage of the Deaf culture and an Auditorium that provide an area for visual interactive sessions, training and meetings.
WELDING SIMULATORS
Welding simulators was obtained for the Pre-Vocational phase to improve the training in welding by providing a safer environment, saving material and generating reports on assignments of different levels and methods.