Qatar Awqaf completes first sign-language training phase
The first phase for customer-service staff ran October 4–8; a second phase is scheduled for October 18–22.
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The Human Resources Department of Qatar’s Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs completed the first phase of a sign-language programme for customer-service and other frontline staff. The training is intended to help staff communicate with deaf and hard-of-hearing people and people with speech difficulties.
The ministry said the two-phase programme targets 26 administrative employees, with a period of workplace practice between the phases. A specialist accredited by the Arab Union for Organizations Working in the Care of the Deaf supervises the training; the second phase is scheduled for October 18–22.
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Training programme target group
Administrative staff targeted by the two-phase programme.
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Target attendance reported by QNA on October 11; the number completing the course was not separately reported.
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