Deaf Youth and children from St. Phillip’s and Eruba Primary deaf Unit have now enjoyed two of these joint events. Each time the service has been followed by food and sport or a film.
As I umpired the netball it was great to see the healthy competitive spirit of the older deaf come out. They loved it.
These shared events have been super and are great for developing community spirit amongst both the deaf and hearing.
We have recently provided educational support for three isolated deaf children, two of them at Eruba – Ivan and Samuel. In both these cases the local church of the child has also given a termly contribution to the fees because of the poverty of the parents. The third deaf child, Ronnie, circled, has intermittent hearing loss so has been re-located to a school with much smaller class sizes (25 rather than 80+) It is so encouraging to see how quickly they have settled and are picking up sign-language.
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