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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.86,0:00:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patrick Otema is 15 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.09,0:00:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was born deaf, \Nbut in this remote region
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.22,0:00:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of northern Uganda, there \Nare no schools for deaf children.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.01,0:00:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his whole life, \NPatrick's never had a conversation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.37,0:00:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello, you good?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.65,0:00:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His father, Charles, looks after him.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.16,0:00:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are only able to communicate \Nthrough very basic gestures.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.59,0:00:42.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been sitting here talking \Nabout Patrick in front of him,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.21,0:00:45.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and while he's been watching us, \Nhe doesn't understand what we're saying.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.27,0:00:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It feels almost rude, but this is \Nwhat Patrick's life is like all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.64,0:00:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm here with someone \Nwho wants to change all that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.14,0:00:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Raymond Okkelo is deaf himself \Nand a sign language teacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.00,0:01:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you think he \Ncould learn sign language?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.35,0:01:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is pretty much Patrick's existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.40,0:01:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His father gestures to him \Nwhat he wants him to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.13,0:01:23.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when he's finished, \Nhe goes back to his hut
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.34,0:01:25.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to spend the rest of the day on his own.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.82,0:01:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patrick's fate is not unusual.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.02,0:01:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The majority of deaf people \Nin Sub-Saharan Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.03,0:01:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have never been taught sign language.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.04,0:01:43.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unable to communicate with others,\Nthey're trapped in their own minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.79,0:01:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Raymond became deaf \Nas a child after a bout of malaria.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.44,0:02:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Six months ago, he traveled to the capital\Nfor intensive training in sign language.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.39,0:02:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now he's returned to his village \Nto do something unprecedented.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.09,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's going to teach the first \Nsign language course ever set up here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.24,0:02:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Raymond, are you nervous?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.66,0:02:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's 2 o'clock, the first \Ndeaf students start turning up...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.57,0:02:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..and class begins.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.67,0:02:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The course has already started, \Nbut Patrick hasn't turned up yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.45,0:02:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm worried his father \Ncouldn't convince him to leave home.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.98,0:02:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few minutes later, Patrick arrives.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.18,0:03:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patrick's transformation is amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.78,0:03:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's almost impossible to believe \Nit's the same boy we met yesterday.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.61,0:03:45.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New deaf students keep arriving.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.40,0:03:50.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many have walked miles to be here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.48,0:03:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a nine-year-old boy \Nand an 80-year-old woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.03,0:04:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before the end of the class,\Neach new student goes to the front.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.41,0:04:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The class votes on \Na new name for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.83,0:04:09.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is now Patrick's sign name,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.29,0:04:12.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he will use it \Nfor the rest of his life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.11,0:04:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has just been baptized \Ninto a whole new world.