A video clip to raise public awareness about promoting gender equality and stopping violence against women, which is performed by a group of the hearing-impaired people in Da Nang in the sign language, has left a deep impression on viewers.

The Club’s members publicising gender equality and violence prevention campaign

Over the past 3 years, the 5-minute-lasting video clip has helped the Da Nang Club for the Deaf convey a message of ‘Non-Violent Planet’ to its watchers.

In this clip, the Club members have sung the ‘Men Move’ song in the sign language with the purpose of stopping violence against women and girls.

Notably, they have acted in good husbands who are willing to help their wives do housework.

The video also features some beautiful landscapes of the city, and real situations about men often teasing women.

At the end of the video, the Club members show the words ‘No Violence’ in the hollows of their hands in a bid to convey a message of encouraging people to join efforts to build a non-violent planet.

The idea to make the video clip was developed by Ms Ho Tran Thanh Huyen, a former employee of the municipal Youth Union.

Ms Huyen remarked that she had attended a training course on raising awareness amongst young people about stopping violence against women and girls in August 2015. The event had been co-organised by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), and the Viet Nam Volunteer Centre (VVC) of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

The purpose of the course was to encourage trainees to use the social network to publicise about the campaign to end domestic violence.

After finishing the training course, Huyen and her friends have conducted an awareness survey about gender equality and violence prevention amongst the Club’s members.

As a result, most of the Club members have yet to clearly understand about gender equality and violence against women.

Therefore, Huyen and her friends have held a training course for 40 hearing- impaired members of the Club and 30 students from the Faculty of Social Work of the Da Nang University of Education.

In addition, they have created a video clip to promote gender equality and end domestic violence in sign language.

“Although it found very difficult for us to realise our idea, we felt very happy to join efforts in the fight against violence against women and girls”, Ms Huyen noted.

Over the past 3 years, the video clip has become more popular with the deaf community in Da Nang and other localities nationwide. After this video, the Club members have become actively involved in social activities organised by the UN Women and the municipal Women's Union to further spread the message of gender equality, and showing the love for women and protecting them.