In Madagascar we have 20 million inhabitants. The deaf association (FMM) has 13 deaf clubs. There are 2500 deaf sign language users and 8 schools for the deaf. We have Malagasy Sign Langauge and the spoken language is Malagasy and French for administrative work.
In 1998 we only had 5 interpreters. From 2007 till 2009 two groups of sign language interpreters were trained (13+6). In 2010 he association of sign language interpreters was established.
Achievements since 2007:
- Increase of interpreters from 5 to 33
- Establishment of the association: FMTTM
- TV news interpreting
The ITT project under the umbrella of the federation of the deaf they organised a training. The certificate is awarded by the federation of the deaf and the university.
There are several challenges we are still faced with such as setting up an agency for interpreters.
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