[sw-l] Re: greetings from Uganda

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
March 29, 2005

Shane - This is remarkable! I hope you can communicate with another
Irish-American about using SignWriting at their Deaf school in
Uganda...Thank you!!  Val ;-)

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On Mar 29, 2005, at 4:06 AM, Shane Gilchrist Ó hEorpa wrote:

> Val,
>
> Mmmhh, Uganda is next to Kenya where Kerugoya School for Deaf Children
> is
> (not far from the Ugandan border) - I hope to "write very well" in
> Written
> NISL and use the skills I have to do the same in Written KSL and
> introduce
> it to Kerugoya School for Deaf School. Maybe I can meet up with John
> Kennedy
> (that doesn’t sound like a Ugandan name, deffo an Irish/Irish-American
> name)
> in Uganada the next time im in Kenya.
>
> Im the chairperson of the Kerugoya Deaf Children Foundation - for this
> reason, we are to support the Deaf School there (175 kids) etc
>
> Now you can see why I don’t have much time to improve me Written
> NISL!!!
>
> Off to Dublin today...
>
> Shane
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu [mailto:owner-sw-
>> l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] On Behalf Of Valerie Sutton
>> Sent: 28 March 2005 23:11
>> To: SIGNWRITING List
>> Cc: union of workers unionofdeafworkers
>> Subject: [sw-l] Re: greetings from Uganda
>>
>> SignWriting List
>> March 28, 2005
>>
>> Dear Mr. Kennedy -
>> Thank you for your message below. Our non-profit organization does not
>> have the funds to give to anyone. I am so sorry. The only donations we
>> make, from time to time, are materials that use SignWriting.
>> SignWriting is a way to read and write the movements of Sign
>> Languages.
>> We have never written the Sign Languages of your country, so I do not
>> know if the materials will be of help to you...
>>
>> However, perhaps you would like to use SignWriting yourself on the
>> web?
>> Then you can learn SignWriting and in turn, help the Deaf children of
>> your area? If you are interested in learning SignWriting, please write
>> again and I can help you learn...
>>
>> Thanks for writing...Val ;-)
>>
>> PS. I am posting this message to the SignWriting List in case someone
>> on the List would like to help you...
>>
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>>
>> On Mar 21, 2005, at 9:03 AM, union of workers unionofdeafworkers
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Sir/Madam,
>>> We are deaf people who have come together under our organization:
>>> Union of deaf workers based in East Africa-Uganda but we have
>>> identified deaf school going children but we can not meet this need.
>>>
>>> As you may be aware deafness in Africa is looked at as a burden so
>>> these   deaf children may go without the education. We humbly request
>>> for your funding in form of school fee for those children school fees
>>> per child a year is: 12,000$ and there are 8 children. Please I
>>> kindly
>>> request you to reply me.
>>>
>>> Hope to hear from you.
>>>
>>> Yours sincerely,
>>>
>>>
>>> John Kennedy
>>> Chairperson
>>
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