In 2002 Comic Relief funded a programme to improve the communication skills, literacy and employment prospects for deaf people in The Gambia.

Education for Development, a charity within Reading University, as the lead organisation involved Deafax (who are also based within Reading University) as a partner in this project. Deafax has over 21 years of knowledge and experience of both literacy and employment training programmes.

Deafax staff have visited the Gambia Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (GADHOH) to set up the personal computer that has been obtained with the funds and to provide training to GADHOH staff.

GADHOH staff visited Deafax in 2002 for more extensive training, not only in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) but also to gain knowledge and skills in improving the employment prospects for deaf people.

The training programme is ongoing funds, permitting, using E-mail as the main contact over the miles.