Marilú Calle Rojas

  GETTING TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT OF DEAF CULTURE International Sign Language Day is celebrated every September 23, established by the World Federation of the Deaf in 1951. This Day marks the birth of an organization, which has as one of its main objectives, the preservation of sign languages and deaf culture as prerequisites for the realization of the human rights of deaf people. The first International Day of Sign Languages was celebrated in 2018 as part of the International Week of the Deaf, which was first celebrated in September 1958 and has since grown into a global movement that promotes and raises awareness of the challenges that deaf people face in their daily lives. Here in PERU, on the fourth Sunday of September each year, we celebrate the "National Day of the Deaf Person" and on September 23, the "Peruvian Sign Language Day" as a unique opportunity to support and protect the linguistic identity and cultural diversity of deaf people. While it is true

  MY EXPERIENCE AS A YAV  AT MY WORKPLACE   The month of September marks my first month volunteering for the YAV program with the Peace and Hope Institution in the Sign Language program located in the province of Moyobamba, San Martin region, Peru, and this has been wonderful and very meaningful to me. My volunteering with Paz and Esperanza is on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays: On Mondays I prepare materials for classes with the deaf and hearing in the Paz and Esperanza office.   On Thursdays I accompany teacher Luz Clarita Tejada and Jessy Chávez to give sign language classes to hearing teachers of the Serafín Filomeno National Emblematic School located in the province of Moyobamba, these Thursday activities also help me to expand my vocabulary to be able to have a better interaction with the children, deaf adolescents and young people.   On Fridays and Saturdays I teach Spanish to