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From New Vision, story by By Maria Wamala

Uganda has a new program for young deaf children. The new pre-school is located in the city of Ntinda. In the past, deaf children entered Primary One classrooms without any previous education. Now they have a nice school where they can develop their sign language skills. One of the school’s founders, Dr. Joyce Nalugya, says that, "The children will study, play and have fun in a well-equipped early learning facility like other children in kindergarten."

Two organizations that have worked to set up this school are UK Sign Health http://www.signhealth.org.uk and Uganda Sign Health. The UK Sign Health representative, Matthew Gilbert, said, "Deaf children deserve to be helped to grow into responsible adults who, with their impairments, can contribute positively to the country’s political, social and economic development."

 

Photos from thestar.com

The Silent Teddies Bakery recently opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is operated by The Community Service Center for the Deaf (CSCD). The CSCD has a program named Teenage Entrepreneur Development. It is a program that teaches deaf teenagers how to work to be independent. They also learn how to set up and manage businesses.

Two other organizations helped raise money to start the bakery. They are The Latin American Ladies Association in Malaysia and the Hong Leong Foundation.

One student named Khew Yun Loi took a special baking class and is now teaching 8 other deaf students how to work in the bakery.

The new bakery already sells 600 loaves of bread and 5kg of cookies every day.

 
 

From rit.edu

There are only a few deaf police officers in the world. One deaf policeman was Tony Wallace. He worked in a small town in the state of Alaska.

In August, Tony was working one night when a man shot him and his police partner, Matt. Both policemen died.

After the two policemen died, the other police officers captured the shooter. He was a man who lived in Tony’s town and had a long history of bad behavior.

The town of Hoonah held a special funeral service for Tony and Matt. Many police officers from around the country attended. Also, the governor of the state of Alaska gave a speech.

Tony when he was about 8 years old.


 
 
Photo from www.rt.com

There is a new cartoon for deaf children in Russia. The characters in the cartoon are cute dogs who communicate with sign language. The cartoon is a project of an organization named the Academy of Open Communications which is located in the city of Kazan. The director of the organization, Tatiana Merzlyakova, says that the cartoon will not only entertain children, but it will also teach them sign language.

The cartoon will start showing in Kazan in September, 2010.



 

Billy Adams in 9 years old and lives in the USA. He is deaf and was born with Down Syndrome. He recently started training to become a bodybuilder. He has been appearing at bodybuilding competitions and receiving standing ovations!

 
June, 2010
 




Loud Shirt Day is a fundraising event for schools for deaf children in Australia.  Participants all over Australia wear their most colorful shirts for the day and make a special donation to help the schools.
 











 

250 young deaf women attended the Deaf Action Center's 2010 Teen Leadership Summit for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Girls held in Plano, Texas, USA. The girls had the opportunity to meet and learn about how other women deal with the challenge of deafness.






 
Photo from thetimes-tribune.com

 

 

 

Students from the Scranton School for Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Children in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA cleaned Crowley Park on Earth Day.

April, 2010
 


 Jet Blue is an airline (airplane) company in the USA. In late 2009, a group of deaf students from the Rochester School for the Deaf in New York made a suggestion to Jet Blue. They suggested a new way for Jet Blue to make traveling easier for deaf people. They suggested a message board inside the planes. The message board would give information like emergencies and bumpy weather. Three of the students are: Kenneth Gentzke III, Ashley LaBarge, and Marissa Woodruff. The leaders of Jet Blue said they will think the students’ idea.

 

Students at the Blossom Montessori School in Clearwater, Florida USA had a special contest to celebrate Valentine’s Day. The students tried to be the "Reddest Kid" and eat the "Reddest Lunch". The students dressed in red clothes, colored their hair and skin red for the day, and even used food coloring to dye the sandwich bread in their lunches red.





Students at St John’s School for the Deaf in Boston Spa, UK raised £330 ($516) to send to earthquake victims in Haiti..
 

 

 
February, 2010
An organization, Krou Sar Thmey, has developed a new sign language dictionary for the Khmer language in Cambodia. They developed 2 dictionaries with more than 1,600 words in sign language.

Photo from the
London Evening Standard



Four deaf teenagers in the UK will star in a new drama. The drama is named "The Boy From Before". It is a four-part series about a ghost of a boy from the 1940's who visits a school for deaf students. The show teaches lessons about friendship and bullying.


A telephone company in Ghana, Vodaphone, recently set up special telephone booths at 2 schools for the deaf and blind. The goal is to make it easier for students to communicate with their family and friends. The two schools that received the telephone booths are Mampong Senior Technical School of the Deaf and Akropong School for the Blind.

Photo from the
Canadian Press


 

Megan Jack is a medical student at the University of Manitoba in Canada. She is the first deaf student in the school’s medical program. Megan says that she has wanted to become a doctor since she was a child. After she graduates, she will be one of the few deaf doctors in Canada.

 

September, 2009      
 

Photo from gla.ac.uk

Deaf Youth Theatre is a drama group in Scotland.  They recently gave their first performance in the city of Glasgow. The name of their play is "Gone". It was written and produced by deaf children. 


A deaf woman, Ashley Fiolek, won the moto x super X women's final at the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles, USA. 
 

Louis Kissaun is a 16-year-old deaf actor in the UK. He acts in the TV program called "Shameless". 
 


There was a music concert for deaf people in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. The concert was called Sencity, and about 2,000 people were there. They danced on a floor that vibrated. The floor was imported from the Netherlands. There was music and also special smells to match the music.  

                                                    


 

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