National Deaf Services Institute of South Africa (NDSISA) is a leading independent not for profit, public benefit, national advocacy and consumer organization registered both as a section 21 company and Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) founded in 2004 managed by Deaf people representing South Africa’s more than 4 million Deaf and hard of hearing people.

NDSISA is dedicated to providing quality services, ensuring public accessibility and increasing awareness of issues affecting Deaf people at all levels in South Africa.

NDSISA provides a broad continuum of comprehensive social and human development services to all Deaf South Africans at national, provincial and local level in the knowledge that Deaf people are a natural and integral part of South African society, and should have opportunities to contribute their experience, talents and capabilities to national, provincial and local development.

National Deaf Services Institute of SA was founded at an important moment in the history of South Africa, namely, the coming into being of a decade of a democratic dispensation – ten years of post-apartheid governance.

Our vision is of empowered Deaf people with equal opportunities and fulfillment in a barrier-free South Africa.

The vision calls upon NDSISA to be catalyst for change and to continuously contribute to efforts and the shaping the policies of tomorrow for a society for all.

NDSISA’s mission is to serve as an innovative, responsive and dynamic developmental Deaf organisation that consistently ensures the protection and promotion of the rights, needs and concerns of Deaf people in South Africa.