Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Welcome! Joel Barish of DeafNation

By Mackie Calbay





Usually, someone who have traveled around the world, use social networks and upload videos in Youtube to show different cultures and meeting new faces in beautiful places. All world travelers and information shared in media are posted with no sign language or subtitles. Deaf community and world loves to watch the stories even they can't understand the sound of every word without support services.

Until a Deaf person named Joel Barish, a Deaf American. He had a good idea to set up a current business as DeafNation. He works together with his beloved brother Jed. They created a video with sign language through hands and he travels and collects a lot of the documentation with unique stories of the Deaf -- those who live, faces with no barriers and work with amazing cultures in their own beautiful country.



Starting last January 19, 2012, He have traveled in different countries until the 60th country he visited here Manila, Philippines with his assistant and documentation, named Calvin Young. They toured at School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde and following the Philippine Federation of the Deaf.

Metrowide Organization of the Deaf invited him to presentation, fellowship and get-together with Joel Barish of DeafNation. Its theme titled "Deaf People Around the World" on January 20, 2012, from 7:00 to 9:00pm, at DLS-CSB, Taft Campus, Manila. A hundred Deaf people from different of Deaf organizations, schools, provinces, and community, they happily watch the presentation and sharing stories with animated pictures and videos of his great experiences.

This special event is brought aboutby: Philippine Federation of the Deaf, Metrowide Organization of the Deaf, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies, Philippine Federation of the Deaf Youth Section, Philippine Deaf Rainbow, Phil-Sports Federation of the Deaf.

In the following days, they also met other successful Deaf Filipinos who proudly do amazing work, family business and interview with them. Moreover, they visited Bohol and met Deaf people over there and collecting the unique stories cultures and enjoying leisure time. They share the stories to the world for parting of the Deaf Filipino documents in Deaf Nation as World enjoy to watch our videos. Our great memory with the WOW Philippines and No barriers with Joel Barish.

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