Thanks to your support we were able to subsidise the travel costs of an extra six young deaf adults wanting to represent the Arua District in Kampala, amongst larger delegations of deaf from many other parts of Uganda - over 400 delegates in total. There was encouragement from other National Deaf leaders representing Australia, Finland, Holland and Nepal there, to pubicise and claim the legal provisions Uganda's deaf have now beeen accorded by the government
Next we visited a deaf school and a deaf kindregarten, the first of its kind. Increased awareness is swelling the numbers of the former dramatically; but without increased funding to match.
Then a march through the city to hand in a petition to the Social Affairs Minister at his office, and then to the studios of Uganda's Broadcasting company. The petitions called for improved access to education, work and information through more sign-language interpreted services and programs.
Finally, there was a cultural celebration in Kampala's Centenary Park where deaf delegations from different tribes performed dance and drama. good to meet other workers involved in deaf projects in other parts of Uganda.
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