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[Teacher] My name?
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Good!
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Yours?
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Yeah! Anne, Anne, good!
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My name?
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[Girl signing] Miriam.
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[Teacher] Good! Good, good.
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Yours?
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Your name? Uh uh, you are not Anne.
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My name? Hmm. Yours, yours, yours.
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[Boy] Yours, yours, yours.
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[Teacher] Hmm. What is her name?
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[Girl signing] "Beautiful"
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[Teacher] Yeah, beautiful.
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She's very good in taking in the sign language.
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It's very important to have because she can now be communicating to other people.
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While she was at home there was no sign language being taught there.
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Are you happy, happy, happy, happy, happy?
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[Teacher] Yeah, happy, happy, happy, happy.
[Child signing] I'm happy to be at school.
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[Teacher speaking and child signing] True.
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Everyday... you... come... school.
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Yes.
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[Signing and interpretation] These six year olds are so happy to finally be able
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to express themselves and communicate with others.
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It is only by learning sign language that deaf children can fully communicate.
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Today, deaf children and young people worldwide are too often denied their right to education.
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This is because of a lack of teachers well-trained in sign language
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and a lack of awareness by parents that their children can and have a right to go to school.
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Sign language is mandatory if these deaf people are going to learn. Without it they cannot.
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So it is a mother language that helps them to communicate with others.
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So without this it means the communication will be at zero.
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And without communication then you cannot impart skills.
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Here we shall learn about the Europeans who came to East Africa...
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why the Europeans came to Kenya.
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Lucy?
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[Signing] To get land.
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[Teacher] Ok, you can say to get land.
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Another one?
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[Signing] They came to trade.
[Teacher] They came to trade. That's right.
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Uh huh. Another one?
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[Signing] Economic reasons.
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[Teacher] The economic reason
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is similar to the trades... whereby they came to trade. Ok?
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Understand well.
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It's possible for the deaf to learn anything,
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but what should happen is that they should have people who can communicate to them very well.
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People who can use sign language.
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People who understand the way they react.
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You look at their face, how they are communicating,
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their body.
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The teachers come here and they teach very well and I understand.
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[Elizabeth Gituku] It is very important that we have learning opportunities
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so that they also join the other citizens in careers
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that will make them stand on their own, make them independent
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and also support their own families.
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[Signing and interpretation] I wish to become a teacher
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teaching small children in primary schools.
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[Signing and interpretation] I would like to become a pharmacist.
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[Signing and interpretation] I would wish to become a doctor or a lawyer.
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Majority of the colleges, over ninety percent, they actually have no support for the deaf people.
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[Signing and interpretation] For example, myself, I struggled very hard to get accounting.
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I had passed well in the mathematics, but there was no college which was accepting me.
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[Signing and interpretation] So if I go to the university and I find that there is no interpreter,
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I will look for a person who can help me to interpret
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because it is hard for me to follow something which is happening without an interpreter
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or that... if the teacher is not using sign language.
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[Signing and interpretation] In class, we don't have an interpreter but I learn together with others.
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So I sit with a person and when the lecturer is writing something or is teaching
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I always copy from my friend.
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If I have a question, I write it down and pass it to this person who is hearing
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and will ask the lecturer to explain.
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[Speaking softly] We are set back because we [our] disability [?] only affects the ear, not the mind.
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The mind of deaf children is as well as someone who's hearing.
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[Clapping and murmuring]
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[Signing and interpretation] Being denied the human right to education in sign language
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has long-term consequences.
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If deaf children do not develop the ability to communicate, they are unable to learn
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and get jobs and are isolated within their communities.
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[Signing] I love to learn sign language.