Br. Andrew de Carpentier
- Naam:
- Br. Andrew de Carpentier
- Woonplaats:
- Salt, Jordanië
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- augustus 2018
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Profile Br. Andrew de Carpentier
“That… which was from the beginning, which we have heard,
which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked
at and our hands have touched - this we proclaim…” - (1 John 1:1)
Brother Andrew A.L. de Carpentier, alias “Brother Andrew” was born in the Netherlands where he studied Civil Engineering. He is an Anglican monk and ordained priest (Canon of St,George’s Cathedral-Jerusalem) who has lived in the Middle East since 1970. Having studied Education and Theology in Beirut-Lebanon he became the Executive Director of the Holy Land Institute for Deaf and Deafblind Children in 1977. The Institute celebrated its Golden Jubilee (50 years) in 2014.
Upon his retirement in November 2017 Br. Andrew started a Consulting and Training service and expanded his activities to the Middle East region and beyond under the Jordanian umbrella organization World-Wide Hearing Care for Developing Countries and Deserving Communities (WWHearing).
Over the years he has developed extensive first-hand experience in the area of hearing impairment, both within the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and in the Middle East as well as in many developing countries world-wide. He is recognised by a number of local and international agencies, including the WHO-Geneva, as an authority and resource person on the education and provisions for sensory impaired people. Br.Andrew is a founding member and current Chair of the WWHearing Association in Geneva (2006), a global programme in affiliation with the WHO - World Hearing Forum. WWHearing aims to improve services and support for persons with hearing impairments with a special focus on the 80 million children and young people worldwide who are in need of hearing aids.
He serves on numerous national and international committees and action groups dealing with hearing impairment, Sign language, audiology and special education. For his services in the field of the development of Deaf Education he was awarded a Dutch knighthood.
He is very interested and challenged by the relationship between muslims and christians. His knowlegde and personal experience of the Arab/Islamic world provide a unique platform for encounter and discussions with a broader audience.
His objectives are for the Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and Deafblind Communities in Jordan and the Middle East region and globally to participate in family and civic society in a meaningful way and enable them to make their unique and valuable God-given contributions to an inclusive society.
Intro Sign Language
Visual Communication and Sign language INTERPRETING
(utilizing the sense of vision)
“For what they were not told, they will see; and what they have not heard, they will understand” - (Jes. 52:16)
Intro World-Wide Hearing
(utilizing and strengthening the sense of hearing)
“Blindness separates us from things around us; Deafness separates us from people” - (Helen Keller)
Intro Deafblind
Tactile Communication
(utilizing the sense of touch)
“You can project the expression of feelings, but not the feelings themselves; from a distance you can see and hear a touch and feelings, but not touch nor feel them.”
DEAFBLIND
The age-old PROBLEM for which deafblind children are asking solutions is simply this: The communication of Deafblind Persons, who rely on the sense of touch, cannot be multiplied or used in groups. You cannot ‘touch’ more than one person at the time. A film (or computer) may communicate the experience of one person to many other people and so become the great multiplier. As Deafblind communication is one-on-one, this multiplier doesn’t work? In that instance, how can one person (deafblind or not) communicate - not with just one other person but with many deafblind persons - at the same time? The use of IT and Haptic science and technologies (the capturing, transmission and reproduction of movement, feeling and touch) will most likely provide solutions.
WORLD-WIDE HEARING
Forty years of management and development, training and education, fundraising and networking, as well as initiatives for deaf education in the Holy Land Institute and in developing countries, should be adequate training and preparation for my task as chair of WWHearing, incorporated in Geneva in 2006.
The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva estimates that by the year 2020 globally there may be some 900 million people with a hearing loss; 80% live in developing countries where provisions are poor. Approximately half that number (460 million) will actually have a hearing disability. Of this group some 80 million people are Deaf, while another 80 million will be children and young people up to university age who do not go to school because they have a (severe) partial hearing loss but no access to hearing aids.
They are NOT Deaf. They are ‘hearing’ but have a hearing problem, and hearing aids will give them functional hearing. They represent children who never went to school or school-dropouts, young people who failed school and ended up in delinquency, or who became timid, shy and insecure. Similarly elderly people became isolated and de-socialized. With minimal help they can be integrated and educated, or become employable, so to add to the wealth of the nation rather than be a burden on society.
WWHearing has developed a new and innovative hearing aid fitting protocol ‘Hearing Express’. It promotes the use of self programmable hearing aids and 3D printed earmoulds or open fit for the elderly. It also develops initiatives, programmes and activities towards its implementation, while training technician level workers such as community nurses, teachers, 'mothers', etc. on the use of its Hearing Express Toolkits. Particularly Deaf and hard of hearing people are encouraged to participate.
Although at the present time only one in 50 hearing impaired persons in developing countries have access to a hearing aid, the application of the Hearing Express fitting and distribution systems will dramatically increase the numbers of persons benefiting from hearing aids.
SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING
Jordanian Sign language is a well-developed Sign-dialect of the local (eastern) Arabic Sign language. The Deaf young people who study various subjects, including Arabic Sign language, in schools, colleges and universities, are apt to take the development of the language forward. Sign interpreters from a number of Arab countries, working for Arab TV broadcasting stations or studying in Jordan, will contribute to such developments.
The Jordanian hearing ‘CODAs’ (Children of Deaf Adults) who have Sign language as their mother tongue, usually have good command - and might even prefer - Sign language. However, good language skills do not imply good interpreting. CODA’s and interpreters alike may well need training and exposure to best practise, while specialisation in particular areas such as medicine or the judiciary is also needed.
For such interpreters the Jordan Association of Sign language Interpreters (Br. Andrew is its honorary chair), hopes to develop and implement training courses concerned with the fluent, experienced and practised interpreting of both Arabic and Arabic Sign language.
Hearing and Deaf Interpreters of Tactile Sign language (the language of the deafblind) are invited to participate, and together achieve a formally recognized certificate.
PUBLICATIONS
Brother Andrew is very interested and knowledgeable about the theological, biblical and cultural aspects of the relationship between Jews, Christians and Muslims as the Children of Abraham. His home is in Jordan, located between Israel and the Arab world and between the cultures of the West and of the East. In the course of history here the heavens opened three times, when the Almighty came to bury Moses on mount Nebo, and the Prophet Elijah ascended into heaven on a chariot of fire, and where, on the east bank of the river Jordan, the Spirit of God descended in the form of a dove when Messiah Jesus - the Christ, was baptized by the Prophet John.
Writing from 50 years of personal experience, he seeks to preserve and pass on through publications his perspectives and insights as a Christian regarding the dynamic between the Abrahamic faiths, and some of the practical implications. The organization that is being established will provide a platform for Br. Andrew’s message ‘The Jordan Experience’ that evidences respect, co-existence and harmony between Muslims and Christians in the Middle-East.
Other publications are planned and will deal with sensory disabilities such as hearing impairment and deafblindness, Sign language and tactile Sign language, the history of Deaf education in the Middle East, Deaf culture and the psychology of deafness, and related subjects.
Over mijn reis
September is a month full of travelling. Starting with South Korea and Japan and then America (through the "back door"!). Why? To meet people and organisations and develop projects to serve the Deaf, Deafblind and Hard of Hearing communities. Will you follow me and join me in prayer? He's got the whole world in His hand!
Bezochte landen
Ik heb 6 landen (3%) bezocht:
Canada, Filipijnen, Japan, Jordanië, Verenigde Staten, Zuid-Korea.
