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Request from KG VI: We are desperately trying to find ways to improve teaching of deaf students. There can be no teaching while teachers do not know sign language. We have designed a course to teach students teachers who intend to teach deaf students when they graduate. Unbelievable that sign language is not offered as a subject at the college but it isn’t. This year we have no funds to continue with the very successful sign language teaching programme we ran last year. We would like to hold 3 lessons per week, 2 for the trainee teachers and 1 for parents of deaf children. We have 6 facilitators and there are on average 12 working weeks in a term.

Per term: € 1100
Total for a year: € 3300 

There are now 2 boys at KGVI who have been the victims of criminal negligence on the part of the electricity supply authority. Live wires falling from poles, is a fairly common occurrence and the problem is not seen to quickly enough. Young children too often pick up or tread on these wires and suffer terrible injuries from the voltage. Both boys have lost limbs and have terribly scarred faces. The electricity supply people are paying for the boys school fees but for the older boy the school would like to get a laptop so he can learn to write his notes and exams using his one foreshortened limb.

With an increasing number of children in wheelchairs if KG VI school takes them on any trips, they cannot fit children and wheelchairs in the bus. The school would like to purchase a small lightweight trailer which could fit 6 to 8 wheelchairs and could be towed behind the bus.