These photos are from the Silent Voices annual event. The parents of the deaf children from the Butare school performed their drama play. The story line, in brief: the mother has a deaf child, the father blames the mother and leaves. The child first attends a hearing school, suffers, and then attends a school for the deaf. The father eventually comes back, and the community accepts the deaf child, etc., etc. The story line is very simple, but then again most of the audience (local parents) aren't well educated. The play is performed in the local language and translated into English and USL. Nicholas, the boy in the play, is one of the deaf children at the school. I did some of the interpreting!
The girl in this picture is Erica -- she's a deaf child at the Ishekyke school. Her mom Amanda, also in the picture, is the parent rep. at her daughter's school. Both are such awesome people here, and good role models for the other families. Amanda's sign is quite good.
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