I have known the sign language since I was a little boy, and I constantly improve because I have been in contact with deaf people daily. Old and young and those signs change. They'll bring me the vegetables they've grown. That will please me more than money
Anna Šaróková
Job: deaf assistant
Place: Trenčín - Sihoť I
Date of Award: 10. 8. 2026
I have known the sign language since I was a little boy, and I constantly improve because I have been in contact with deaf people daily. Old and young and those signs change. They'll bring me the vegetables they've grown. That will please me more than money
We had telephone contact with Anna, and we knew about which apartment building she lived in. We went through seven entrances, and we found her last name in eight. The moment we were about to ring the bell, a young woman came out the front door. To be sure, we asked her if our house was appreciated. She stayed embarrassed for a second trying to identify our tartars. We were looking for her.
Anna is an assistant to the deaf. More specifically, the translator. He is a child of deaf parents, and sign language is actually her second mother tongue. He senses emotionally that deaf people have great problems communicating in everyday life and this handicap excludes them from majority society. Even if obsessive people who speak sign language are employed at an office, they can only interpret them face to face. There’s nothing on the phone.
I can’t fight it because no certificates work. In Slovakia, there is no accreditation in this respect,” she said.
Anna is trying to help the deaf in Trencin, as she can. It helps them to communicate with authorities, lawyers, notaries, insurance companies, banks, and doctors.
The doctors are afraid not to endanger the patient’s health, for without clear communication with him, they cannot accurately diagnose whether to detect possible allergies to certain medications, says Anna. It is not enough for deaf people to know how to write because the way they communicate or use language has its own rules, in many ways other than the majority population.
In her view, society should integrate the deaf more and help them to integrate into normal life. Often a little patience is enough.
For example, I wanted to arrange for a lady to clean the common entrances. She’s handy and industrious, she has a license. It would be enough to write down what needs to be done, and I would do it one day and work. In the end, it didn’t work, because she said someone would ask her a question and she couldn’t answer, Anička’s angry.
Before we talked to Anika, she had to make a call to Turkey. Her deaf clients are on vacation and need to be equipped to get the program in printed form and can arrange it. The deaf are grateful for her help.
They’ll bring me the vegetables they’ve grown. That will please me more than money.
Anna wants to provide social advice for all health disadvantages in the future. The department of social work is studying in college, and this month it has statesmen.
