Deaf people in Somalia are living a difficult reality because of societal marginalization. Despite some successes, this group suffers from a lack of funding and sometimes harassment.


However, there are endeavors for some activists with hearing disabilities who are trying to take care of this segment, through their education and to address negative thoughts about them.

Halima Mohamed Ali and her sister Fatima are hearing-impaired and desperate for social discrimination, but hope has finally smiled for them and their dream of learning has long been realized.

"Of course I don't hear, but I see and see insults and abuse daily on the streets," says Halima. Affair of others. "

Sunt is the first school for the deaf in Mogadishu to teach about 150 students. It offers basic education, although it lacks adequate teaching aids for students.

"There is an almost total consensus from the community that the deaf never learn, so this school aims to blow up this misconception," says Musa Hassan Ahmed, president of the Somali National Association for the Deaf.

He adds that "the problem is that the official authorities are reluctant so far to absorb this group within the community and ensure their rights, and we suffer from poor funding, which negatively reflected on the education and education of this marginalized segment of Somali society."

The lack of care and inferiority of this segment of the most important problems suffered by deaf - female and male - in Somalia. Perhaps supplying science and knowledge to Halima and her deaf peers will be key to changing their bitter reality.