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[KJ]

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!

KJ
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carol Nussbaumer 
  To: SW-L at majordomo.valenciacc.edu 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:54 PM
  Subject: [sw-l] new subscriber


  Monire Mose!  (Hello, everyone)

  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.

  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. 

  If you would like to learn more and see pictures of the school, visit the website www.marionmedical.org 

  I imagine I will be on here asking for help a lot!

   

  Tiwonge chomeni!  (Thank you very much)

  Carol Nussbaumer   Mama Kalo to the Embangweni kids



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