Coco Roschaert is a young deaf-blind woman
who has Usher Syndrome. She travels around
the world and makes videos of her
experiences.
In this video, she is visiting the Isle of
Skye in Scotland with a group of people who
are backpacking. The rest of the group went
to hike up another mountain, so she decided
to climb this hill all by herself. She is
very happy when she reaches the top of the
steep hill without help!
If you would like to learn more about the
Isle of Skye, you can visit this web site: http://www.skye.co.uk/
The
National Catholic Office of the Deaf
– Western Region is planning a
sign-language interpreted pilgrimage
(tour) to France from May 22 to June
2, 2011. The chaplain of the trip
will be Father Tom Coughlin. Fr.
Coughlin is America's first deaf
Catholic priest. The tour will visit
these special places: Paris,
Lourdes, Nevers, Versailles,
Toulouse, Lisieux, and others. The
group will visit religious places
and also secular (not religious)
places.
James Duthie was a deaf
factory worker who lived in
the country of Scotland. In
1951, he decided to ride a
bicycle from his home 3,000
miles to the Arctic Circle.
This bicycle journey took
him 3 months. While he
traveled, he wrote in a
diary to tell about his
experiences. The diary was
published and was named, "I
Cycled Into the Arctic
Circle".
James’ nickname was "Dummy
Jim", and you can now read
his story on a web site:
www.dummyjim.com
Two men from Scotland, Olly
Rundell and Alex South, are
riding their bicycles and
following the same route
that James followed. They
are using this journey to
raise money for the National
Deaf Children’s Society in
the UK and also to make a
movie about James’ diary.
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The
National Catholic Office of the Deaf
– Western Region is planning a
sign-language interpreted pilgrimage
(tour) to France from May 22 to June
2, 2011. The chaplain of the trip
will be Father Tom Coughlin. Fr.
Coughlin is America's first deaf
Catholic priest. The tour will visit
these special places: Paris,
Lourdes, Nevers, Versailles,
Toulouse, Lisieux, and others. The
group will visit religious places
and also secular (not religious)
places.
Muhammad
Akram is
the
Assistant
Director
of DFI.
He lives
in
Pakistan,
and he
is
working
hard to
help