<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">March 18, 2016</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here, here! I second the congratulations to the Deaf Community of Malta!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Malta is ahead of many countries ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Maltese Deaf Community may be tiny, as you say, but they are setting an excellent example for the world. And I am sure your efforts, Maria, have made a major contribution...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for informing us - </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">---------------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 18, 2016, at 8:21 AM, Carlos Machado Oliveira <<a href="mailto:machado@softwarelivre.org" class="">machado@SOFTWARELIVRE.ORG</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div class="">Congratulations to the Deaf community of Malta. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class="">We all hope the law will help bring great advances for the community's campaigns! <br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class="">Best<br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class="">Machado<br data-mce-bogus="1" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__" class=""><div data-marker="__HEADERS__" class=""><b class="">From: </b>"Marie Alexander" <<a href="mailto:marie.alexander@um.edu.mt" class="">marie.alexander@UM.EDU.MT</a>><br class=""><b class="">To: </b><a href="mailto:SW-L@listserv.valenciacollege.edu" class="">SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a><br class=""><b class="">Sent: </b>Friday, 18 March, 2016 11:20:10<br class=""><b class="">Subject: </b>Maltese Sign Language made official<br class=""></div><br class=""><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Friends,<br class=""><div class="">I just wanted to share the wonderful news that Maltese Sign Language (LSM) is now an official language in Malta.</div><div class="">The Bill became law on Wednesday 16th, less than 48 hours ago. I was in Parliament with some members of the </div><div class="">Deaf community.</div><br class=""><div class="">Hopefully, this will make a difference to many here, particularly to youngsters at school but also to the adults.</div><div class="">There is, of course, a lot of work to be done to enable the law to make a difference but this is the first big step.</div><div class="">Signwriting will play an important role as we hope to develop resources through it too.</div><br class=""><div class="">I wouldn't be surprised if some of you saw one of the photos that went floating across smartphones within minutes.</div><br class=""><div class="">I thought you would all be pleased about this. The Maltese Deaf community is tiny but they make up for it in other ways.</div><br class=""><div class="">Regards to all,</div><div class="">Marie Alexander</div><div class="">Malta</div><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""> <br class=""></div></div>
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