Quota International of Iloilo, The Philippines
An Interactive Library for Hard-of-Hearing Individuals

As technology becomes increasingly crucial to our daily lives, Iloilo Quotarians have made sure that their local hearing-impaired community has been able to keep pace. Their interactive library opened its doors on February 25, 2006, with many local leaders and members of the media present. Since then, it has been open to the public to cater to the needs of hearing-impaired individuals and the general public. Equipped with books on multiple topics, the library also features a crucial resource: computer skills training.

Computer skills training for hearing-impaired students presents a problem in a resource-strapped community, as it requires a teacher who knows sign language as well as computers. The club put its students on the fast-track to success—and provided an excellent role model—when it hired a hearing-impaired computer technician to teach students how to operate the computer and use essential programs. By teaching in sign language, the teacher has helped the students to learn quickly and easily, and as a result of this hands-on training course, they are computer literate and confident in their skills. No matter how important technology becomes, though, nothing will ever take the place of books in a library, and Iloilo Quotarians made sure that students had plenty of reading material to enjoy!

• To read about the Iloilo club's 2007-2009 Club-to-Club project, click here.

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