Left out of society: Vanuatu’s deaf community push for national sign language
With no official sign language, the deaf community are unable to communicate widely and are more vulnerable during natural disasters
Tasale Edward Bule, a 45-year-old fisher from Vanuatu’s Efate island, remembers the day the world went silent.
“I woke up one morning and remember not hearing the birds sing, or the rooster crowing,” Bule says.