1 00:00:00,492 --> 00:00:02,615 [Teacher] My name? 2 00:00:02,615 --> 00:00:03,905 Good! 3 00:00:03,905 --> 00:00:05,219 Yours? 4 00:00:05,219 --> 00:00:07,280 Yeah! Anne, Anne, good! 5 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:08,067 My name? 6 00:00:08,067 --> 00:00:09,065 [Girl signing] Miriam. 7 00:00:09,065 --> 00:00:10,088 [Teacher] Good! Good, good. 8 00:00:10,088 --> 00:00:10,840 Yours? 9 00:00:11,763 --> 00:00:14,102 Your name? Uh-uh, you are not Anne. 10 00:00:14,102 --> 00:00:17,114 My name? Hmm. Yours, yours, yours. 11 00:00:17,114 --> 00:00:19,096 [Boy] Yours, yours, yours. 12 00:00:19,096 --> 00:00:21,778 [Teacher] Hmm. What is her name? 13 00:00:21,778 --> 00:00:22,682 [Girl signing] "Beautiful" 14 00:00:22,682 --> 00:00:25,158 [Teacher] Yeah, beautiful. 15 00:00:25,158 --> 00:00:28,556 She's very good in taking in the sign language. 16 00:00:28,556 --> 00:00:34,136 It's very important to have because she can now be communicating to other people. 17 00:00:34,136 --> 00:00:38,033 While she was at home, there was no sign language being taught there. 18 00:00:38,033 --> 00:00:41,851 Are you happy, happy, happy, happy, happy? 19 00:00:41,851 --> 00:00:44,980 [Teacher] Yeah, happy, happy, happy, happy. [Child signing] 20 00:00:44,980 --> 00:00:46,821 [Teacher speaking and child signing] True. 21 00:00:46,821 --> 00:00:51,170 Every day... you... come... school. 22 00:00:51,170 --> 00:00:52,294 Yes. 23 00:00:52,294 --> 00:00:56,529 [Signing and interpretation] These six year olds are so happy to finally be able 24 00:00:56,529 --> 00:00:59,448 to express themselves and communicate with others. 25 00:00:59,448 --> 00:01:03,942 It is only by learning sign language that deaf children can fully communicate. 26 00:01:03,942 --> 00:01:10,623 Today, deaf children and young people worldwide are too often denied their right to education. 27 00:01:10,623 --> 00:01:14,980 This is because of a lack of teachers well-trained in sign language 28 00:01:14,980 --> 00:01:20,116 and a lack of awareness by parents that their children can and have a right to go to school. 29 00:01:22,701 --> 00:01:29,088 Sign language is mandatory if these deaf people are going to learn. Without it they cannot. 30 00:01:29,813 --> 00:01:34,340 So it is a mother language that helps them to communicate with others. 31 00:01:34,340 --> 00:01:37,890 So without this it means the communication will be at zero. 32 00:01:37,890 --> 00:01:40,974 And without communication then you cannot impart skills. 33 00:01:41,265 --> 00:01:46,332 Here we shall learn about the Europeans who came to East Africa... 34 00:01:46,332 --> 00:01:49,855 why the Europeans came to Kenya. 35 00:01:49,855 --> 00:01:51,061 Lucy? 36 00:01:51,061 --> 00:01:54,855 [Signing] To get land. 37 00:01:54,869 --> 00:01:58,149 [Teacher] Ok, you can say to get land. 38 00:01:58,149 --> 00:01:59,810 Another one? 39 00:01:59,810 --> 00:02:03,415 [Signing] [Teacher] They came to trade. That's right. 40 00:02:03,415 --> 00:02:05,799 Uh-huh. Another one? 41 00:02:05,799 --> 00:02:07,871 [Signing] Economic reasons. 42 00:02:07,871 --> 00:02:09,405 [Teacher] The economic reason 43 00:02:09,405 --> 00:02:16,056 is similar to the trades... whereby they came to trade. Okay? 44 00:02:16,056 --> 00:02:18,378 Understand well. 45 00:02:18,378 --> 00:02:21,653 It's possible for the deaf to learn anything, 46 00:02:21,653 --> 00:02:28,809 but what should happen is that they should have people who can communicate to them very well. 47 00:02:28,809 --> 00:02:31,630 People who can use sign language. 48 00:02:31,630 --> 00:02:35,530 People who understand the way they react. 49 00:02:35,530 --> 00:02:38,574 You look at their face, how they are communicating, 50 00:02:38,574 --> 00:02:40,487 their body. 51 00:02:40,487 --> 00:02:46,600 The teachers come here and they teach very well and I understand. 52 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,814 [Elizabeth Gituku] It is very important that we have learning opportunities 53 00:02:50,814 --> 00:02:55,032 so that they also join the other citizens in careers 54 00:02:55,032 --> 00:02:59,449 that will make them stand on their own, make them independent 55 00:02:59,449 --> 00:03:01,662 and also support their own families. 56 00:03:01,662 --> 00:03:04,136 [Signing and interpretation] I wish to become a teacher 57 00:03:04,136 --> 00:03:10,609 teaching small children in primary schools. 58 00:03:10,609 --> 00:03:13,937 [Signing and interpretation] I would like to become a pharmacist. 59 00:03:13,937 --> 00:03:20,336 [Signing and interpretation] I would wish to become a doctor or a lawyer. 60 00:03:20,336 --> 00:03:26,979 Majority of the colleges - over ninety percent - they actually have no support for the deaf people. 61 00:03:26,979 --> 00:03:32,493 [Signing and interpretation] For example, myself, I struggled very hard to get accounting. 62 00:03:32,493 --> 00:03:36,972 I had passed well in the mathematics, but there was no college which was accepting me. 63 00:03:36,972 --> 00:03:42,945 [Signing and interpretation] So if I go to the university and I find that there is no interpreter, 64 00:03:42,945 --> 00:03:45,891 I will look for a person who can help me to interpret 65 00:03:45,891 --> 00:03:56,068 because it is hard for me to follow something which is happening without an interpreter 66 00:03:56,068 --> 00:03:59,483 or that... if the teacher is not using sign language. 67 00:03:59,483 --> 00:04:09,899 [Signing and interpretation] In class, we don't have an interpreter but I learn together with others. 68 00:04:09,899 --> 00:04:16,688 So I sit with a person and when the lecturer is writing something or is teaching 69 00:04:16,688 --> 00:04:19,981 I always copy from my friend. 70 00:04:19,981 --> 00:04:29,613 If I have a question, I write it down and pass it to this person who is hearing 71 00:04:29,613 --> 00:04:33,832 and will ask the lecturer to explain. 72 00:04:33,832 --> 00:04:42,962 [Speaking softly] We are set back because we... our disability only affects the ear, not the mind. 73 00:04:42,962 --> 00:04:46,082 The mind of deaf children is as well as someone who's hearing. 74 00:04:51,481 --> 00:05:00,496 [Clapping and murmuring] 75 00:05:02,681 --> 00:05:06,502 [Signing and interpretation] Being denied the human right to education in sign language 76 00:05:06,502 --> 00:05:08,452 has long-term consequences. 77 00:05:08,452 --> 00:05:13,360 If deaf children do not develop the ability to communicate, they are unable to learn 78 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,371 and get jobs and are isolated within their communities. 79 00:05:16,371 --> 00:05:26,794 [Signing] I love to learn sign language.