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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Monire (or is it Mose?) Welcome to the List,
Carol, and welcome to SW! I know I was thrilled when I first
discovered SW; I hope you'll find your school more receptive to it than most
North Americans. Please feel free to post your questions here - the
answers and discussions are always interesting. :-) We've got great
people here on the List, always ready to do whatever we can to
help!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>KJ</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=carol@nussbaumers.net href="mailto:carol@nussbaumers.net">Carol
Nussbaumer</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=SW-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:54
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [sw-l] new subscriber</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Monire Mose! (Hello, everyone)<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I am new to SW and very excited to find it. I am a
volunteer speech therapist at the Embangweni School for the Hard of Hearing in
Malawi, Africa. We began in 1997 to develop a sign language for our
students, who use Chitumbuka as the language of choice (they also must learn
English, Chichewa and often a tribal language). Up till now we have had
no way of visually presenting the signs for new students and new
teachers. I am hoping to be able to use SW for our
school.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The school presently has 164 students boarding, ranging in
age from 6 – 20. About 60% are post-lingual deaf; the rest born
deaf. We have 12 classrooms, plus the advanced vocational education
section with an average of 11 students per classroom – much better than the
usual Malawian classroom of 80 to 100 students per teacher! We are
located on a mission station which is a 3 hour drive from the nearest town of
any size. The school has no piped water, but we are lucky to have a
bore-hole (deep water well) close to the classroom block. There is
electricity on station, but it is too expensive for the school to use
except for a very occasional evening meeting at the chapel. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>If you would like to learn more and see pictures of the
school, visit the website <A
href="http://www.marionmedical.org">www.marionmedical.org</A> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I imagine I will be on here asking for help a
lot!<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Tiwonge chomeni! (Thank you very much)<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Carol Nussbaumer <I>Mama Kalo</I> to the
Embangweni kids<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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