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Latest news
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Sense International celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities
30 November 2018
Today (3rd December), is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, an awareness day set up in 1992 by the United Nations to promote the...
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Peruvian Government launches pilot vocational training programme for people with deafblindness
14 November 2018
The Peruvian Government, with support from Sense International Peru, launched its first vocational training course for people with deafblindess as...
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Focus on vocational training
16 May 2018
Highlighting stories from Romania, Peru, India and Bangladesh to demonstrate the profound difference that access to training opportunities can make.
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Celebrating the conclusion of the Project 'Improving Opportunities for Deafblind People’ in Peru
4 April 2018
Big Lottery funded project, focusing on improving the health and wellbeing of children with deafblindness and multiple disabilities.
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Lydia graduates in pioneer deafblindness course
22 December 2016
1st certificate course on deafblindness at Kyambogo University, Uganda.
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Deafblindness training in Romania
22 November 2016
Sense International Romania organised their fourth training course in deafblindness as part of the project 'Sense for Life'
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Training across borders
6 September 2016
Sense’s Head of Children’s Specialist Services, Steve Rose, talks about the programme and his recent trip to Nairobi
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Sense International beneficiaries in Peru awarded scholarship to develop vocational skills
14 April 2015
The Peruvian government has awarded two deafblind people training scholarships to develop their skills in massage.
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An update on our work in Kenya - the Wezesha project
22 September 2014
This time last year saw the first deafblind curriculum being rolled out in Kenya. A year on, this has had a huge impact on the quality of education...
First published: Tuesday 18 June 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 4 April 2018
