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[MARIA AZZOPARDI]

Dear Carol,

Welcome on the list! I'm Maria from Malta - I really hope you will learn
SW and pass it on to your students! Here in Malta we use SW mainly in
research, but we would love to see Deaf people themselves using in more
fluently and for everyday life. Things take time..but patience is the key.
I checked out your website - interesting!
Hope I can be of any help when you post your questions!

Bye for now,

Maria

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