There are 120,000 deaf people in Bulgaria, according to unofficial data. Many of them do not want to learn sign language, although it is useful to them. There is no translation in schools for deaf children... All these are objective facts that become a driving motive for Boris Bandev, born into a family of deaf people with the good fortune to have unimpaired hearing. He takes on the mission to make life easier for at least some of those people whose voice the state cannot hear.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that there are around 180 sign language interpreters in the country, but only around 20 of them are active. Their number against the background of 120,000 people is extremely insufficient, as is that of the 1,000 people trained in Boris and Alexander's courses over the last three years. However, Bandev is optimistic that things are going in the right direction and in the next five years the situation will change.
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