Cochlear Immigrants In Tanzania

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For the transportations in Tanzania, not many people own cars. Even a small hatchback cost more than a SUV in the US due to expensive import fees. Instead of buying the cars, they can use motored bike, regular bike and public transportation. Time is not that important, like in the United States. For example, if a person wants to meet his or her friend at a certain time, that person will arrive later by thirty minutes to an hour late due to numerous bus stops. Kinyasi said Tanzanians are relaxed about times because being late became norm. Tanzanian Deaf people were also allowed to obtain a license for drive a vehicle. However, there are some countries like Ecuador or Eastern Burundi were not allowed deaf people to drive due to inability to hear and their governments believe that effect could lead to high risk of vehicle accidents, which is not scientifically accurate. On the other hand, there is available Medicare insurance for Deaf people who wants to buy hearing aids, not the cochlear implants as they did not exist in the country. Because insurance is expensive, many poor families could not afford hearing aids for their Deaf children. Insurance is similar in the US as well but in a special case, some offer coverage on free hearing aids or cochlear impairments for deaf people.
Furthermore, job opportunity is very limited to Deaf
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However, many of those can be found in internet café around Tanzania. This is because not many people can own the computers since they are pricey and were imported from different country. Due to economy situation, his country can only import outdated technology. It is not common to find electronic device (cell phones, tablets, telephones, game consoles etc) leftovers on shelves in some stores for few years. Kinyasi’s early schooling years never provide technology that was available in other countries like Japan, Canada and