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  • Organisation

    ARV User Association (AUA) is a community-based organisation that was formed by a group of people living with HIV; 86% of AUA’s current staff live with HIV, 60% of their management team are women, and many staff comes from ethnic backgrounds. AUA is essential in coordinating different stakeholder groups, bringing together government and civil society representatives, service providers, and community members to advocate for human rights and access to quality healthcare. AUA builds capacity and leadership within the community by training and employing People Living with HIV (PLHIV). This is unique among HIV/AIDS organisations in Cambodia in that our staff works directly alongside healthcare providers. AUA’s triage teams support patient reception, case management, referrals, and partner tracing and testing. At the same time, our counselors and group organizers offer targeted social support that focuses on treatment adherence and positive prevention. AUA also provides financial and in-kind support for greatest-need patients.  

    • Organisation

      ARV User Association (AUA) is a community-based organisation that was formed by a group of people living with HIV; 86% of AUA’s current staff live with HIV, 60% of their management team are women, and many staff comes from ethnic backgrounds. AUA is essential in coordinating different stakeholder groups, bringing together government and civil society representatives, service providers, and community members to advocate for human rights and access to quality healthcare. AUA builds capacity and leadership within the community by training and employing People Living with HIV (PLHIV). This is unique among HIV/AIDS organisations in Cambodia in that our staff works directly alongside healthcare providers. AUA’s triage teams support patient reception, case management, referrals, and partner tracing and testing. At the same time, our counselors and group organizers offer targeted social support that focuses on treatment adherence and positive prevention. AUA also provides financial and in-kind support for greatest-need patients.  

    • Project

      Cambodian Sign Language for All is an informal group formed by sign language interpreters and deaf teachers who wish to see deaf people able to access information related to health care, reproductive health of women, and social development. Its endeavor to create videos and digitalize content in sign language will highlight the importance of accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities, especially deaf people and hearing-impaired. 

      This project aims to see deaf people and people with hearing impairments able to communicate with the public and be fully inclusive in access to information on health, education, and social development. The core value of this project is to see deaf people in Cambodia able to access quality information through more significant sign language interpretation on video and other communication channels. It intended to produce awareness-raising videos on the needs and issues of deaf people who cannot communicate with the public people and are left behind. There are 40 videos with reasonable quality sign language interpretation on the news related to health education, entrepreneurship, entertainment, and updated news for deaf people. Forty people who are family members, friends, and public people that are not deaf are selected to participate in the physical sign language class to become peer supporters of the deaf people community. They are the volunteers who will continue to promote inclusive communication with deaf people through sign language interpretation. Various awareness-raising activities on the needs and issues of deaf people in Cambodia will be organised by the community of deaf people in Cambodia. This 12-month project will target Phnom Penh city and produce sign language teaching class videos on YouTube and other social media channels.   

  • Project

    Cambodian Sign Language for All is an informal group formed by sign language interpreters and deaf teachers who wish to see deaf people able to access information related to health care, reproductive health of women, and social development. Its endeavor to create videos and digitalize content in sign language will highlight the importance of accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities, especially deaf people and hearing-impaired. 

    This project aims to see deaf people and people with hearing impairments able to communicate with the public and be fully inclusive in access to information on health, education, and social development. The core value of this project is to see deaf people in Cambodia able to access quality information through more significant sign language interpretation on video and other communication channels. It intended to produce awareness-raising videos on the needs and issues of deaf people who cannot communicate with the public people and are left behind. There are 40 videos with reasonable quality sign language interpretation on the news related to health education, entrepreneurship, entertainment, and updated news for deaf people. Forty people who are family members, friends, and public people that are not deaf are selected to participate in the physical sign language class to become peer supporters of the deaf people community. They are the volunteers who will continue to promote inclusive communication with deaf people through sign language interpretation. Various awareness-raising activities on the needs and issues of deaf people in Cambodia will be organised by the community of deaf people in Cambodia. This 12-month project will target Phnom Penh city and produce sign language teaching class videos on YouTube and other social media channels.   

  • Project journey

    Sign language is the first language for the deaf to communicate and to receive information in their daily life 

    Everyone needs information for their daily living, no matter what group they belong to. Communication and access to information are essential for everyone to share their feelings and learn from each other. But if we look at deaf people, they have difficulty in communicating and receiving information, because most of the information is focused on the audience with hearing ability, while the families of most deaf people do not know the sign language to communicate with the deaf people. As a result, many deaf people feel lonely and isolated from those with hearing ability.  

    Through the Cambodian Sign Language for All Project, which is supported by Voice and hosted by AUA and in collaboration work with the Deaf Development Program (DDP), this project aims to promote Cambodian sign language among those with hearing ability and deaf persons so that they can communicate with each other. We want to see deaf people gain access to information for their general knowledge related to education, health, entertainment, and cultural understanding. In particular, deaf people have the opportunity to interact with those with hearing ability, exchange their experiences, and live independently despite being deaf. Therefore, the project set up two basic sign language classes every Saturday for people with hearing ability including the family members of the deaf people. We have also created a page named Cambodian Sign Language Interpreters to promote health education and entertainment activities with a total of 40 videos that include Cambodian sign language translation to ensure that the deaf have access to that information. Through this page, we have also created sign language videos with 30 lessons based on the basic Cambodian sign language curriculum for those with the hearing ability and the deaf so that they can learn Cambodian sign language on their own through social media. 

    As a result, for the last 12 months of the project implementation, 40 students (F:30) including 5 family members of the deaf people have learned more than 300 signs and have communicated better through sign language with deaf people. They also understand better how deaf people live and understand their culture through meeting and outdoor activities together with the deaf people.​ 20 deaf people were engaged and interacted with hearing people who attended the class through different activities indoors and outdoors.    

    Throughout the whole project period, the page which is dedicated to the promotion of the Cambodian sign language by including sign language interpretation has produced a total of 25 educational videos on women’s health education and general knowledge, 15 entertainment videos, and 30 video lessons for teaching basic Cambodian sign language. Particularly, we have produced sign language promotional videos and collaborated with other projects in providing sign language interpretation with a total of 15 videos that were outside the project plans. The followers of the page are reached to 2.4K followers.  

  • News

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