0:00:00.492,0:00:02.615 [Teacher] My name? 0:00:02.615,0:00:03.905 Good! 0:00:03.905,0:00:05.219 Yours? 0:00:05.219,0:00:07.280 Yeah! Anne, Anne, good! 0:00:07.280,0:00:08.067 My name? 0:00:08.067,0:00:09.065 [Girl signing] Miriam. 0:00:09.065,0:00:10.088 [Teacher] Good! Good, good. 0:00:10.088,0:00:10.840 Yours? 0:00:11.763,0:00:14.102 Your name? Uh uh, you are not Anne. 0:00:14.102,0:00:17.114 My name? Hmm. Yours, yours, yours. 0:00:17.114,0:00:19.096 [Boy] Yours, yours, yours. 0:00:19.096,0:00:21.778 [Teacher] Hmm. What is her name? 0:00:21.778,0:00:22.682 [Girl signing] "Beautiful" 0:00:22.682,0:00:25.158 [Teacher] Yeah, beautiful. 0:00:25.158,0:00:28.556 She's very good in taking in the sign language. 0:00:28.556,0:00:34.136 It's very important to have because she can now be communicating to other people. 0:00:34.136,0:00:38.033 While she was at home there was no sign language being taught there. 0:00:38.033,0:00:41.851 Are you happy, happy, happy, happy, happy? 0:00:41.851,0:00:44.980 [Teacher] Yeah, happy, happy, happy, happy.[br][Child signing] I'm happy to be at school. 0:00:44.980,0:00:46.821 [Teacher speaking and child signing] True. 0:00:46.821,0:00:51.170 Everyday... you... come... school. 0:00:51.170,0:00:52.294 Yes. 0:00:52.294,0:00:56.529 [Signing and interpretation] These six year olds are so happy to finally be able 0:00:56.529,0:00:59.448 to express themselves and communicate with others. 0:00:59.448,0:01:03.942 It is only by learning sign language that deaf children can fully communicate. 0:01:03.942,0:01:10.623 Today, deaf children and young people worldwide are too often denied their right to education. 0:01:10.623,0:01:14.980 This is because of a lack of teachers well-trained in sign language 0:01:14.980,0:01:20.116 and a lack of awareness by parents that their children can and have a right to go to school. 0:01:22.701,0:01:29.088 Sign language is mandatory if these deaf people are going to learn. Without it they cannot. 0:01:29.813,0:01:34.340 So it is a mother language that helps them to communicate with others. 0:01:34.340,0:01:37.890 So without this it means the communication will be at zero. 0:01:37.890,0:01:40.974 And without communication then you cannot impart skills. 0:01:41.265,0:01:46.332 Here we shall learn about the Europeans who came to East Africa... 0:01:46.332,0:01:49.855 why the Europeans came to Kenya. 0:01:49.855,0:01:51.061 Lucy? 0:01:51.061,0:01:54.855 [Signing] To get land. 0:01:54.869,0:01:58.149 [Teacher] Ok, you can say to get land. 0:01:58.149,0:01:59.810 Another one? 0:01:59.810,0:02:03.415 [Signing] They came to trade.[br][Teacher] They came to trade. That's right. 0:02:03.415,0:02:05.799 Uh huh. Another one? 0:02:05.799,0:02:07.871 [Signing] Economic reasons. 0:02:07.871,0:02:09.405 [Teacher] The economic reason 0:02:09.405,0:02:16.056 is similar to the trades... whereby they came to trade. Ok? 0:02:16.056,0:02:18.378 Understand well. 0:02:18.378,0:02:21.653 It's possible for the deaf to learn anything, 0:02:21.653,0:02:28.809 but what should happen is that they should have people who can communicate to them very well. 0:02:28.809,0:02:31.630 People who can use sign language. 0:02:31.630,0:02:35.530 People who understand the way they react. 0:02:35.530,0:02:38.574 You look at their face, how they are communicating, 0:02:38.574,0:02:40.487 their body. 0:02:40.487,0:02:46.600 The teachers come here and they teach very well and I understand. 0:02:46.600,0:02:50.814 [Elizabeth Gituku] It is very important that we have learning opportunities 0:02:50.814,0:02:55.032 so that they also join the other citizens in careers 0:02:55.032,0:02:59.449 that will make them stand on their own, make them independent 0:02:59.449,0:03:01.662 and also support their own families. 0:03:01.662,0:03:04.136 [Signing and interpretation] I wish to become a teacher 0:03:04.136,0:03:10.609 teaching small children in primary schools. 0:03:10.609,0:03:13.937 [Signing and interpretation] I would like to become a pharmacist. 0:03:13.937,0:03:20.336 [Signing and interpretation] I would wish to become a doctor or a lawyer. 0:03:20.336,0:03:26.979 Majority of the colleges, over ninety percent, they actually have no support for the deaf people. 0:03:26.979,0:03:32.493 [Signing and interpretation] For example, myself, I struggled very hard to get accounting. 0:03:32.493,0:03:36.972 I had passed well in the mathematics, but there was no college which was accepting me. 0:03:36.972,0:03:42.945 [Signing and interpretation] So if I go to the university and I find that there is no interpreter, 0:03:42.945,0:03:45.891 I will look for a person who can help me to interpret 0:03:45.891,0:03:56.068 because it is hard for me to follow something which is happening without an interpreter 0:03:56.068,0:03:59.483 or that... if the teacher is not using sign language. 0:03:59.483,0:04:09.899 [Signing and interpretation] In class, we don't have an interpreter but I learn together with others. 0:04:09.899,0:04:16.688 So I sit with a person and when the lecturer is writing something or is teaching 0:04:16.688,0:04:19.981 I always copy from my friend. 0:04:19.981,0:04:29.613 If I have a question, I write it down and pass it to this person who is hearing 0:04:29.613,0:04:33.832 and will ask the lecturer to explain. 0:04:33.832,0:04:42.962 [Speaking softly] We are set back because we [our] disability [?] only affects the ear, not the mind. 0:04:42.962,0:04:46.082 The mind of deaf children is as well as someone who's hearing. 0:04:51.481,0:05:00.496 [Clapping and murmuring] 0:05:02.681,0:05:06.502 [Signing and interpretation] Being denied the human right to education in sign language 0:05:06.502,0:05:08.452 has long-term consequences. 0:05:08.452,0:05:13.360 If deaf children do not develop the ability to communicate, they are unable to learn 0:05:13.360,0:05:16.371 and get jobs and are isolated within their communities. 0:05:16.371,0:05:26.794 [Signing] I love to learn sign language.