CEHIC - Centre for Education of Hearing Impaired Children
Our Foundress
To label a child with a hearing impairment as “handicapped” or “abnormal” is an injustice. Being hearing impaired or “hearing challenged” does not mean that a child is backward. These children are intelligent, with a variety of talents and they have the potential to achieve great things. As we know, none of us is perfect. Until we die, we all perhaps try to achieve perfection and personal fulfillment. Like us, a hearing impaired child is “potentially” perfect.’
Rev. Sr. Greta Nalawatta
of the Sisters of Perpetual Help
Foundress/Directress
CEHIC
Our Patron
The single motivating factor behind the CEHIC is to bring people out of darkness into light, or more literally, to liberate them from a world of silence into a world of sounds, speech and communication with their fellow human beings.
Ven. Valamitiyave Kusaladhamma
Sangha Nayake Thera
Patron and Member of Board of
Trustees
Our Patron
This experiment with a liberating message, begun by Sr. Greta in May 1982, proclaims loud and clear, and proves with tangible results that the “deaf” can hear and the “dumb” can talk, provided they get the right type of education.
Rev. Fr. Aloysius Pieris sj.
Patron and Member of Board of
Trustees