This little boy made me this mask! He ran a little wood shop at the wood district. These people are skilled!
I'm going to be making a slide show of my trip to put on the blog soon. So keep checking back. This is Silvia, she's deaf and blind and amazing. We sign in her hands and she understands every word. I was there in 2005 and she totally remembered who I was. What an experience.
My favorite days were the last two. The meetings were over and we were able to spend the days with the deaf students of Mampong Ghana. We teach them what we can, but it usually turns out that they teach me! These are my boys!
I went to Africa with a non-profit organization called Signs of Hope International. Check out our website at www.signsofhopeinternational.org This is me with the founder Erin.
We had a world wide meeting and I was lucky enough to be a part of it. The goal of the meeting was to promote having the teachers of the deaf schools teach in sign language! We made a lot of progress and it went really well!
All the exhaust was making me sick. We had to spend the first few days in the city.
