Mission: To facilitate the lifting and elimination of language barriers and the uptake of SASL in health care among the Beneficiaries so that they may assert, know and advance their rights;

Vision: To work collaboratively with stakeholders and partners such as the University of Cape Town – and other South African Universities; Provincial and National Departments of Health; staff of health districts and health facilities within the nine Provinces – starting in the Western Cape;

Objectives:

• To promote meaningful and equal access to the constitutional rights of access to health care services among the Beneficiaries whilst combating direct and indirect discrimination against them on the grounds listed in the Constitution of South Africa, including race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth.
• To promote and support access to information technology to facilitate access to health care and health information for the Beneficiaries;
• To provide SASL interpreter services for all in health care in South Africa.
• To promote and support access to the training of Deaf relay professional and accredited medical SASL interpreters;
• To promote and support access to the training and employment of Deaf auxiliary health workers, such as ‘Deaf doulahs’ to assist midwives during labour and delivery;