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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>KJ – Thanks for the note. I am
hopeful that SW will be useful for us in Malawi, once I learn it. Our school
is so hungry for any sort of help that I know they will be thrilled!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Carol<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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[mailto:sw-l-bounces@majordomo.valenciacc.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>KJ<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> SignWriting List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [sw-l] new subscriber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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!</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:carol@nussbaumers.net"
title="carol@nussbaumers.net">Carol Nussbaumer</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span
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2009 12:54 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [sw-l] new
subscriber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I imagine I will be on here asking for help a lot!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<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>
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