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Thank you for covering the deaf emergency inclusion crisis. Below you'll find everything you need, from boilerplate to key facts to high-resolution images.

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Organizational Boilerplate

International Deaf Emergency (IDE) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, an international member of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), and a member of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Disability Reference Group. Founded in 2010 by Emmanuel Jacq, a Deaf French diplomat, following the Haiti earthquake, IDE works to protect deaf and hard-of-hearing communities in emergencies worldwide through disaster risk reduction, advocacy, and emergency response. IDE is aligned with the UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030.

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Key Facts

Founded in 2010 after the Haiti earthquake by Emmanuel Jacq, a Deaf French diplomat
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN 27-3191911
International member of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), the global body for national Deaf associations, with 139 national members; WFD estimates that more than 70 million deaf people belong to signing deaf communities
Member of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Disability Reference Group, the humanitarian system's reference group on disability inclusion
Aligned with the UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
160+ homes built for deaf families displaced by the Haiti earthquake
400+ people trained in disaster risk reduction across 3 continents
Operates in Haiti, Nepal, and across Africa, partnerships in 18+ countries
Over 430 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss, projected to pass 700 million by 2050 (WHO)
UN human rights standards require all emergency-related information to be accessible, including to deaf persons through sign language (UN Human Rights Office, thematic study A/HRC/31/30 (2015), para. 7)
Persons with disabilities are up to 4× more likely to die in disasters (UN Human Rights Office, thematic study A/HRC/31/30 (2015); persons with disabilities, from Japanese disaster data)