We’re on a mission to empowering hearing-impaired students worldwide.

In 2021, about 825 million students globally were affected due to the closure of schools as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic that struck. Over 9.7 million students in Ghana were not exempted.

During the pandemic, however, we saw an increase in online learning platforms and video conferencing tools to help continue studies in various institutions. Even Ghana’s national television and radio programs participated by broadcasting educational content.

But most deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Ghana’s primary and secondary schools were left to their fate. In Ghana, there is a significant disparity in access to educational resources tailored to the needs of deaf and hard of hearing students (for example, being more engaging and taught in sign language).

Project ReL aims to close the inequality gap for deaf and hard of hearing students in Ghana. Although we’ve seen a decline in the effects of the pandemic in Ghana, online learning has become a new norm and is here to stay.

ProjectRel.org is our online learning platform that would be a repository for educational and engaging online learning materials, all taught in sign language. The content are tailored to various educational needs and provide other skill development content, such as programming and graphic design.