Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality provided stationery support to hearing-impaired pupils on the occasion of Hearing-Impaired Week.

Members of the Metropolitan Municipality Council Disability Commission, together with Head of the Department of Social Services Serkan Demirkıran and Head of the Disability and Elderly Services Branch İsmail Değirmenci, visited the pupils of Yenişehir Surkent Primary and Secondary School for the Hearing-Impaired as part of Hearing-Impaired Week, 23–29 September.

Members of the Disability Commission and Head of the Department of Social Services Serkan Demirkıran engaged closely with the hearing-impaired pupils. During the programme, school bags containing stationery supplies were presented as gifts to the pupils.

‘We Will Continue to Support the Right to Education of People with Disabilities’

Director of the Disability and Elderly Services Unit, İsmail Değirmenci, stated that through their work they aim to raise awareness regarding people with disabilities.

Reminding that the Metropolitan Municipality provides services for people with disabilities, Değirmenci said:

“While carrying out our work, we emphasise the diversity of the city and act with the principle of living together in unity. Moving away from conventional and classical methods, we visited Surkent Primary and Secondary School for the Hearing-Impaired during Hearing-Impaired Week. By presenting an educational set to our hearing-impaired friends, we raised awareness. From here, we give this promise: we will continue to support the right to education of people with disabilities.”