September is Education Month (Punctuality and Attendance - the keys to success) and this is Deaf Awareness Week. These things are declared grandly in the local paper or local TV, but it is well nigh impossible to find out when and where anything is actually happening. But yesterday I succeeded in joining the Supporters Group for Deaf Persons marching behind a banner with a police motorcycle in front to sort out the traffic. Then there was a conference day covering solidarity, HIV AIDS, Advocacy and Rights. There were about 30 people including lots of teenagers, all using sign language apparently very effectively. I am hoping to learn, but of course it is the American version. This week there are visits to schools to promote Deaf Awareness and I'm going along to a couple of these as well as visiting the Police - to raise awareness of issues with the police tackling groups of youths who may be deaf. That should be interesting.
On Sunday evening we met up with VSOs and friends as one of the VSOs is leaving. We went to a bar with terraces overlooking the beach - cool balmy breezes and dark, so you cannot see the mud coloured sea.
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This all sounds like a government that knows where it's going! I'll be interested to hear how you get on with the police, although I suppose there are certain things you can't say in a blog.
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