Continuing our support of the Noluthandu School for the Deaf

For the past 11 years, Tullow’s Cape Town office has supported the Noluthando School for the Deaf, based in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. This school caters for 182 pupils between the ages of three and 21 years old, most of whom have minimal or no hearing and come from disadvantaged backgrounds. The school also offers vocational skills training including welding, hairdressing, panel-beating and spray painting, hospitality training, bricklaying and sewing. This year’s donation of US$18,500 will pay the salaries of the eight deaf educator-assistants who assist the children via sign language during their early years at the school. This vital work helps the children to learn speech and develop vocabulary and without which it is unlikely that they would be able to communicate effectively.