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Merge NZ receives funding for NZSL Clubs


Merge NZ is proud to announce that we have received a grant of $20,000 from the NZSL Board to help us establish 5 new NZSL Clubs in 2025.


The aim of these clubs is to support students on their NZSL journey with opportunities to practice their signing in a social environment, as well as encouraging them to continue learning and maintain their language skills. These NZSL Clubs will be for anyone in the community, particularly NZSL students, Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and youth, their parents, and family members to practice using NZSL in person.


The funding from the NZSL Board will help us set up these clubs, including assigning NZSL students to be club facilitators; providing resources, such as themed vocab sheets, to aid discussion; and advertising and promotion of the new clubs. The planning and resources will help support the clubs from start of February to end of May 2025, with the hope that this will be a strong foundation that allows each club to continue independently.


Our first NZSL Club was established in 2021 by our NZSL Onsite Course Coordinator, Jennifer Lum, and a few other locations were set up afterwards. Some of these clubs have continued since then, and we are excited to grow the number of NZSL clubs with our new funding.

"I have had many people who have had NZSL training ask about having such an event where they could get together with their voices off and use NZSL in a fun and relaxing environment as they were saying they want to keep up with their NZSL skills and to use it more. I feel it is a great opportunity for the local communities and their whānau and colleagues to go to a place where they can use NZSL in a natural environment." Janine Campbell, NZSL Learning & Development Coordinator

Janine hopes that both the new and established NZSL clubs will continue to run long term, providing opportunities for signers to practice NZSL in an immersive environment and learn through communication activities.


Thank you to the NZSL Board for providing this funding to us!


If you would like to find out if an NZSL Club will be set up in your area, visit our NZSL Clubs webpage.

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Alycia Gaston
27 вер. 2024 р.

How awesome to see our very own Mangawhai NZSL Club in those pictures and what a fantastic opportunity for us all! I do hope we can find someone to run the club up here and find like minded individuals to create more clubs!

Handwaves,

ALYCIA

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