new subscriber

[Carol Nussbaumer]

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!

Carol

 

From: sw-l-bounces at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
[mailto:sw-l-bounces at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] On Behalf Of KJ
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:03 PM
To: SignWriting List
Subject: Re: [sw-l] new subscriber

 

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

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From: Carol Nussbaumer <mailto:carol at nussbaumers.net>  

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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