World Deaf Day on 26th September 2011

To mark the celebration of the World Deaf Day and create awareness on Deafness, a rally by Deaf people organised in Rajkot.

26th September 2011 was celebrated as the World Deaf Day and to mark this celebration in Rajkot, Deaf Association of Rajkot has organized a rally by the Deaf people to create awareness on deafness in society. In this rally more then 270 Deaf boy and girls have enthusiastically participated. In this rally students of Rajkot’s Virani Deaf School and of Dr.P.V.Doshi Deaf School have participated.

The message of rally was to create awareness of how to prevent deafness in the society. Participants with placard like provide equality not sympathy to Deaf people in society, Deafness is not a curse but it is God’s creation etc. shown to the passerby on the road on the route of rally. The rally was commenced from Indira Circle and ended at Jubilee circle near Mahatma Gandhi’s statue, where participants offered garland of cotton threads to Mahatma’s statue.

To make this event success, Industrialist Vasantbhai Mangrolia, Hasubhai Joshi, Nishithbhai Trivedi, Kanubhai Pancholi, Pankajbhai Muchala, Kusumben Chuhan, Krishnaben Sapra gave their support. Ashok Kukadia and Hiren Pandya of Rajkot Deaf Association offered cotton threads to Mahatma’s statue and pray for the equality and basic rights of Deaf people in the society.