[sw-l] SignWriting in Uganda

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
March 30, 2005

From: union deaf <unionofdeafworkers at yahoo.com>
Date: March 30, 2005 10:19:01 AM PST
To: sutton at signwriting.org
Subject: re:surprise from you

U.D.W
P.O.BOX 14373,
Kampala,
Uganda.
East Africa 

 Dear Valerie;

We dearly appreciate your encouragement to our association sincerely 
understand the situation you have explained to us. We would like to 
welcome help of any kind be it long term or short term.

  We believe that, help will change the destine of these needly children.

Truthful I and other members have picked interest in learning 
signwriting; it will enrich our sign language. So please help us and 
avail us with the necessary details we continuous appeal to you to help 
us!   Identify charitable organizations, or other organisations of good 
help of which we can share our mission with to help us educate these 
deaf children.

Thank you for writing and away.
God bless your effort
Yours sincerely
Tembo Zuberi

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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...
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>> 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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