A Deaf chef, Bryan Charles Baltazar, has become trending on Instagram as he reaches out to the global audience to share his journey as a Deaf chef. In an interview with H3 World TV, Baltazar shared that his journey to becoming a chef was inspired by his Avo, his grandmother from Portugal, whose cooking interested him from a young age. As Baltazar grew up in Massachusetts, he acquired her culinary skills and developed a deep love for Portuguese cuisine. Today, Baltazar is the co-owner and chef at Noms Eatery, which operates out of a commercial kitchen in Worcester, Massachusetts. While in the kitchen, Baltazar shares his passion with the world by creating Instagram reels that are captioned and transcripted. Baltazar says that while the content is a way to promote his business, it also makes cooking more accessible. 

The Victorian College for the Deaf is the oldest school for Deaf children in Victoria, Australia. The school is facing significant challenges due to a prolonged financial dispute between the state government and Deaf Children Australia, the charity that manages the school site. A much-needed $10 million upgrade has been delayed for four years, leaving the school's 53 students in poor conditions, with some areas of the school deemed unsafe. Deaf Children Australia is demanding that the state government pay market rent to replace the long-standing $1-a-year lease agreement before agreeing to a new lease. The unclear legal status of the land has complicated negotiations, with the charity claiming a freehold interest and the state agency asserting it is Crown land held in trust. As a result, the planned renovations have been repeatedly stalled, with the rising costs of construction shrinking the value of the government grant announced in 2020. While negotiations continue, the school is currently operating under a temporary lease which is set to expire in December 2024.

In Osaka, Japan, a Deaf couple named Hanako and Taro Nomura discovered after years of trying to conceive that Hanako had been sterilized. Married since 1970, they were devastated to recently learn that Hanako had been sterilized in her 20s, during a Cesarean section decades ago without her knowledge. This procedure happened under an old Japanese law that aimed to control population growth by sterilizing individuals with disabilities. The law was enacted in 1948 as a response to the post-war baby boom, and about 25,000 individuals were subjected to these operations, often through deception and unsafe methods. The Nomuras were unaware of the surgery's details and their right to legal action for many years. 

In Kiberia, a 17 year old girl joined ballet at the place where only hearing children attend. This place was founded by Michael Wamaya. Project Elimu offers after school arts education and a safe space for children. Seventeen year old Gorrety Akinyi, is the only Deaf student in the class and has been able to master the routines by carefully copying her teacher and classmates. 

In Malawi, 36 year old Maria Chale, was admitted to a hospital due to cerebral malaria as a little girl. Although she eventually recovered from malaria, the disease made her Deaf. She says, “At first, I used to wear hearing aids at school to help with hearing, but I stopped using them as they produced too much static. Also, I got teased a lot by friends at school, so I just stopped wearing them.” For her, this meant she had to sit at the front of the class so she could lip-read the teachers as they taught. For the most part, she depended on reading her class notes. With her earlier-acquired passion for reading, her performance was still impressive. However, despite trudging through high school and being selected to the highly sought-after and competitive Chancellor College where she read social sciences and later completed a masters degree at the University of Edinburgh, Ms Chale still faces challenges, including a seemingly discriminative attitude from some potential employers.