The deaf people country

27.12.2004

Unofficially there are over 90,000 deaf people in Kazakhstan. Nearly 14,000 of them are registered in the independent Kazakh Society of Deaf People. Invalids do not receive any welfare payments from the government at all. Many foreigners like Chevron Oil, Soros Foundation Kazakhstan, the Dutch Embassy sponsor them, but still it is not enough, and so they have to find work to survive. 604