Ente Nazionale per la protezione e l'assistenza dei sordi ENS-ONLUS

The ENS (ONLUS) is the national non-profit organization responsible for the protection and assistance of the Deaf in Italy as well as social promotion association included in its national registry by decree of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy of 10 October 2002. It has been recognized as a non-profit organization for the protection and assistance of the Deaf with the express purpose, among others, to initiate the deaf in society, helping them to participate in productive activity and intellectual, to facilitate, in the post-school, the development of their activities and capacities to the various professional activities to assist them in finding employment, to cooperate with relevant government departments, as well as with authorities and institutions that have as their object the care, education and the activities of the deaf, and to represent and defend their moral, civil, cultural and economic aspects of hearing and speech disabilities in public administrations.