HIS Place
Hearing Impaired Saturday Hangout Place
Concept
To
create a friendly atmosphere for the New MHI Community consisting of Deaf,
Hearing and Hard of Hearing to mingle and interact. The MHI Center will be used
from 10am to 10pm every Saturday to host a series of events under Outreach
Department. The events may be inhouse or
outdoors.
Strategy
Members
of the Outreach Department as well as the Evangelistic Department will do our
own publicity inviting our friends to come and participate in the various of
events we will organize. The
participants will make use of the available facilities like computers,
television, playstation consoles, board games and other ice breaker games.
The
Outreach Department will be responsible for the discipline as well as the care
of the equipment in the MHI Center. We will not be responsible for any
unforeseen accidents that may happen to the participants. We will ensure that safety is reinforced in
all activities we plan. A well-equipped First aid kit will be placed within the
MHI Center.
All
participants will register on the MHI SARS book for future Contact
Tracing. Any rowdy participants who are
not compliant will be asked to leave immediately. Currently only invited guests (Deaf and Hard
of Hearing ) are welcomed. Hearing
volunteers who are keen to interact with them are encouraged to sign up with
the Full Time Program Coordinator in order to keep track of them.
Logistics
As
MHI has only moved into the MHI Center recently and don’t have a similar
program previously, Outreach Department will source for donations such as old
computer sets, Playstation consoles as well as board games from well
wishers.
Lunch
and dinner is the responsibility of the participants, but organizers will
coordinate how to bring the participants out for their meals at the food joints
around YWCA.
MHI
Center will provide drinks and refreshments for the participants and
volunteers. Outreach Department will be responsible to clean up after the HIS
Place activity is over.
Budget
will be considered for drinks and refreshments as well as repair of the
equipment due to wear and tear.
Target
Outreach
Department will make HIS Place one of the regular ongoing programs to reach out
to the Deaf Community and friends. We
hope that it will run regularly on a Saturday, except for Public holidays. Should the number of participants increase,
there may be a need to book other available rooms at Level 8 in YWCA. The
maximum comfortable size of the people using MHI Center is about 20. If the participants increase (ie more than
20) we will book other available rooms through the Program Coordinator. The number of participants can be counted by
the attendance in the SARS contact tracing book.
Prepared by Dr Victor Keng
Outreach Department Manager
20th May 2003
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