Women with hearing loss in Gaza make animations to raise awareness


  • World
  • Monday, 22 Mar 2021

Hearing-impaired Palestinian women attend a lesson as they learn to make animation films in the central Gaza Strip March 18, 2021. Picture taken March 18, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

GAZA (Reuters) - A group of Palestinian women with hearing loss are using stop motion animation to make short films about their condition to teach children about their condition.

The eight women say they have few career options and hope animation will also become a source of income as well as an advocacy tool.

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