Education Kenya Project #34834

Equipping Hands for Effective Communication

by Kenya Christian School For The Deaf

Equipping Hands for Effective Communication

Project Report | Aug 11, 2022
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By Lavenda Awuor | Program Coodinator

KCSD Global Disability Innovation Award

Dear Suppoters,

As a challenging year draws closer, Kenya Christian School For The Deaf would like to extend a huge thank you to all of our supporters and friends for your continued commitment to our cause by ensuring the continuity of deaf children education during emergencies.

In early 2022, we’ve faced unprecedented circumstances that have required flexibility and resilience, in the midst of a Ukraine vs. Russia war that has made basic commodities price sky rocketing and life becoming unbearable.

Taking the your time to think about who and what we are grateful for provides us with a moment to pause, step back gently, and think again, that affords us a fresh perspective for a new beginning as Kenya heads for tomorrow 9^th August 2022. Together we helped make a difference to the lives of over 200000 deaf Kenyan children dreams come true! Cheers to you all because with your helping hand we achieved a lot together.

Beyond being delightful, Kenya Christian School For The Deaf has won Global Disability Innovation AWARD that equips deaf children ages 2-6 years with sign language acquisition empowers parents and teachers, a reflection of our achievement and what we are grateful for.

As Kenya Christian School For The Deaf continues to promote lifelong learning for deaf children. Lifelong learning begins with schools that build learner skills, confidence and appreciation for learning. Global inflation has disrupted deaf children lives, their learning experiences both at home and in schools leading to deep concerns over learning loss and widening skill gaps.

Deaf children in our society are facing challenges in barriers to curricular access, teacher incompetence in the language of instruction, societal myths, and low expectations.

Statistics show that 90% of 200,000 deaf Kenyan children today struggle to access sign language (Kenya Society for Deaf Children/World Health Organization (WHO) report.

We appeal to you and your friends to help us make a different and bridge the gap by mitigating sign language acquisition for deaf children.

We thank you for your continued support as we do our best to break communication in deaf children. Kindly celebrate with us our best Winning Innovation Award for Global Disability Innovation Hub

Regards

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Apr 16, 2022
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By Lavenda Awuor | Program Coordinatror

Deaf pupils

Dear Prayer Partners,

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your unwavering support of our cause. We are very grateful for the efforts that you have made to continue this friendship, we’re proud to have you as a true partner that has enabled us to continue serving and meeting the need of deaf children and youths.

However, sometimes saying thank you is not enough to express the joy and gratitude we feel for you, I also would like to thank you on behalf of KCSD for the generous support you bestowed on us and to remind you that because of your support, we are where are today because of you and without you we couldn’t have made it this far.

The best kind of friends are those that enter your life and lifts you up to see a blue sky where before there was a cloudy and darkness, they are the friends that have so much faith in you that you start having faith in yourself. These are the friends we should be grateful for, and we're really blessed to have friends like you!
We the KCSD board and the entire staff trust in hard work, creating opportunities where there were none and transforming the lives of the vulnerable deaf children in our community, and standing up for what we believe in, even if it means standing alone!

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you once again for your partnership and for giving us a chance of becoming a larger part of the community.
I hope you find this partnership valuable and worthwhile, please consider sharing our story with your friends and family about our project by sharing the link @ http://goto.gg/34834 on the GlobalGiving project on social media, or just bring us up in conversation. We’d love to hear the story about why you’ve picked our project, and we think your friends would too.

God bless
Lavenda

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Nov 16, 2021
Progress Report

By Lavenda Awuor | Program Coordinator

Rescuing a deaf girl

Dear Partners,

Thank you so much for your generous gift that has enabled us to support deaf child education in Kenya through Educate and Empower Economically on GlobalGiving. We are indeed blessed to have you on board.

I'm Lavenda Awuor, I am the Program Coordinator of Kenya Christian School For The Deaf, and I'm delighted to work with you. KCSDs’ experiences during the critical years of early childhood of deaf children have a profound impact on the rest of their lives, and the COVID-19 pandemic has upended those experiences. The pandemic has undermined learning and development. It has also exacerbated and exposed longstanding early learning challenges to Kenyan deaf children, including early childhood mental health, child care workforce challenges, and inequities faced by deaf children in our society, emergent bilingual children, children with disabilities, and children from families with low incomes.

As KCSD with the help from our partners/friends like you, responded to these urgent challenges by developing digital learning content online apps that support early learning which has been approved by the ministry of education department of curriculum development, Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), yet to be launch.

The app will provide opportunities for early learning deaf children, deaf parents, child care providers, social service providers, families, and others interested to learn Kenya's sign language and the communication barrier.

Please join our panel of experts as they discuss the recent past, present, and future of early learning for deaf children in Kenya & entire East Africa and help us to explore these challenges, opportunities, and priorities.

We want to make sure you see the impact of your donation, so we’ll be sending you updates three or four times per year to share stories of what we’ve been able to accomplish with your support, along with photos we think you’ll love. You can check out our past reports on GlobalGiving to learn about the progress we’ve made so far. For ACTION! click: http://goto.gg/34834

One last thing—sharing our project with your friends and family helps us spread the word about our work and continue to grow our community of supporters like you. If you’re willing to share the story of our work with your network, we’d be incredibly grateful.

WHAT’S NEXT FOR DEAF EARLY LEARNING IN KENYA?

Yours Truly

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