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  • Giving Voice: Service Transforms Life for Hearing Impaired

    Myagmarsuren Battur

    August 17, 2021 |

    Global Press Journal |

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    Response Location: Mongolia, Darkhan, Darkhan-UUL Province

    The Mongolian Association of Sign Language Interpreters launched a free social media service that provides interpreters for people with hearing impairments. Using Facebook Messenger, the service allows clients to use video calls to talk with a sign language interpreter, who then reaches out to an institution or an individual on the client’s behalf. The initiative has six sign language interpreters and has fielded 3,543 calls. Interpreters help people get information and resolve problems, with most clients seeking assistance communicating with medical professionals and government welfare offices.

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  • To Curb Domestic Violence, City Enlists ‘Sisters of the Well'

    Myagmarsuren Battur

    May 15, 2021 |

    Global Press Journal |

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    Response Location: Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

    In Mongolia's capital city, more than 600 people who staff the kiosks where most residents get their drinking water have been trained to spot signs of domestic abuse. The Smart Triangle program aims to overcome low rates of reporting such crimes to the police in this patriarchal society by shifting the reporting burden to people well situated to observe a neighborhood's daily life. Other sorts of responses show stronger effects than bystander interventions like this. But the short training curriculum is not costly to produce and has helped some women.

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