There are eight (8) WFD Regional Secretariats over the world. The oldest WFD Regional Secretariat is the Asia and the Pacific, in which after at least three (3) WFD Ordinary Members establish a regional secretariat. The WFD Ordinary Members provide financial and moral support to the activities of the regional secretariat.The aims and activities of each Regional Secretariat must be compatible with WFD Statutes Article 5 (Please see WFD statutes in the website).All Regional Secretariats cooperate with the WFD General Secretariat and to report to the General Secretariat of their activities.
(as of 9 May 2012)
WFD Regional Secretariat for South America (RSSA)
Interim Regional General Coordinator: Mr. Alexeis Vergara Estibill
C/O Asociación de Sordos de Chile (ASOCH)
Avenida José Pedro Alessandri N° 1251
Ñuñoa, Santiago
CHILE
Email : srsud_fms@yahoo.es
WFD Regional Secretariat for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (RSMCAC) Regional Director:
Interim Regional Director: Mr. Thomas Guzman
Asociación Nacional de Sordos de la Republica Dominicana
Calle Arz. Meriño No. 401
Zona Colonial
Santo Domingo
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Fax: +1 809 689 3512
Email: tguzman.srmcac@gmail.comWFD Regional Secretariat for Asia and the Pacific (WFDRSA/P)
Regional Director: Mr. Ichiro Miyamoto
S.K. Bldg. 8F
130 Yamabuki-cho, Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo, 162-0801
JAPAN
Tel: +81 3 3268 8847
Fax: +81 3 3267 3445
Email: wfdrsap@jfd.or.jpWFD Regional Secretariat for Eastern and Southern Africa (RSESA)
Interim Regional Secretariat – Mr. Bruno Druchen
Deaf Federation of South Africa (DEAFSA)
Private Bag X04
Westhoven 2142
SOUTH AFRICA
Email: deafsa@icon.co.zaInterim Regional Secretariat for the Arab Region Regional Director:
Dr. Ghassan Shahrour
Arab Federation for the Organs of the Deaf
PO Box 4230
Damascus, SYRIA
Fax: +963 11 542 1893
Email: afodafro@scs-net.orgRegional Cooperating Member
Executive Director: Mr. Mark Wheatley
European Union of the Deaf (EUD)
Rue de la Loi – Wetstraat 26/15
B-1040 Brussels
BELGIUM
Fax : +32 2 280 34 39
Email: mark.wheatley@eud.eu
Website: http://www.eud.euWFD Regional Secretariat for Western and Central Africa
President Mr. Lamin M. Ceesay
C/o GADHOH
P O Box 1518
Banjul
THE GAMBIA
Mobile: +220 77 28 0 92 (SMS only)
Email : Lams_lamin@yahoo.co.uk
wcars.gambia1@gmail.comEastern Europe and Middle Asia Regional Secretariat of WFD (EEMARS) Regional Director:
Mr. Valery Rukhledev
c/o All-Russian Society of the Deaf
1905 Goda Str. 10-a
123022 Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Tel: +7 499 255 6704
Fax: +7 499 255 0436
Email: wfdeemars@mail.ru
An Individual Member of the WFD contributes to organisation's daily work which deals with supporting and strengthening deaf associations, organizing human rights trainings, advancing deaf people's rights in the United Nations human rights system, spreading information on the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities(CRPD), producing material in sign language and much more. 