ICAL Fundation para el nino sordo (Deaf children Foundation)

Fundación para el niño sordo (Deaf Children Foundation), is an amazing Colombian non profit organization created in 1961 with the purpose of educating children with hearing disabilities who unfortunately don’t have the economic resources to afford education. 

The foundation has a simple but beautiful campu

s located in the outskirts of Bogota (Colombia’s capital city), where the school operates with 140 children attending from kindergarten to high school. Thanks to the support of outstanding and experienced staff and also specialist equipment the foundation has been offering the best possible rehabilitation and education to the children. This gives them the option to learn through either oral communication or sign language according to their abilities. 

All these efforts will allow the children to communicate despite their hearing disabilities, and be able to study a career, perform a job and fulfil all their dreams as the right of all human beings. 

The school has obtained the resources to offer the best quality education and rehabilitation in two ways: Firstly through an Institution called ICAL (Colombian Hearing and Language Institution), which was created in 1989 to offer specialist hearing, optical, and rehabilitation services to all the citizens. Secondly through donations received from private companies and the hearts of beautiful people who decide to contribute to this amazing work.

However the foundation relies heavily on donations in order to provide the care and support that the children deserve. Not only to keep giving these 140 children the rehabilitation and education they need, but also to help many more children who dream about the opportunity to study and be treated as human beings.

If you want to know more information about the foundation please visit the website www.icalcolombia.org. At the moment the web page is in Spanish but the foundation is currently working to offer an English version.