David Bar-Tzur
Flag: World flag database.
Map: Maps.com - "search" for country, then "Digital Map Graphics").
For a quick, interesting resource for facts about this and other countries,
try Mystic Planet - The New Age directory of Planet Earth.
Note: A flag next to a link shows what language the website is in. If it is followed by this icon: (
), it is a video in that spoken language. If it is followed by this icon: 
, it is in the sign language of that country. If a globe is followed by this hands icon, there is an animated text in International Gesture.
Mzee Bubu - Deaf Pride of Kenya.
DisabilityKenya.org. Kenya National Deaf Women Peace Network. KNDWP-NET is a Deaf women�s peace and human rights advocacy group out to build capacity of deaf women and lobby for inclusion and betterment in the conditions of the deaf members of society.
Kane-Lee, E. (2007, April 17). A TIME TO GLOW: Empowering girls in Kenya.
Deaf People Around the World are like One Family. Deaf since he was 10 years old, Ogolla, a former president of the Kenya Association of the Deaf who was working for a pesticide company, had never heard of the university--Gallaudet University, in Washington, D.C. But he decided immediately to go there. He wanted to fullfill his lifelong dream of getting a college education and live in a country "where deaf people have power." Now he is a senior at Gallaudet University, planning to enter graduate school, and, eventually, take some of that power back to Kenya.
Marete, G. (2005, April 8). Day deaf performers thrilled drama lovers. During the cultural activities that went along the just concluded national sports competitions for the physically challenged,... [t]he deaf presented verses, foreign dances and traditional dances in the Kenyan sign language. Kwale School for the Deaf presented a moving choral verse on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The strength of the verse lay in the signs, movements and the emphasis on facial expressions.
Oganda, M. (2006, December 2). Shattering the myth of deafness and music. As the flag is raised, it is time to sing the Kenya national anthem. Surprise, surprise! They belt out the tune: "O God of all creation, bless this our land and nation, justice be our shield and defender." The pupils [of the Machakos School for the Deaf] sing their hearts out without skipping a line or losing tempo, except it�s all in silence.
Oviedo, A. (2003). Diario de viaje de un venezolano por Kenia. Barinas: Asociaci�n de Escritores del Estado Barinas. 64 p�gs. A mediados del a�o 2000 hice un viaje a Kenia, a visitar a Peter Oracha Adoyo, un educador de ese pa�s que escrib�a su tesis doctoral en el mismo instituto alem�n donde escrib�a yo la m�a. Peter se encontraba en su pa�s recogiendo datos para su investigaci�n acerca de la educaci�n de los Sordos en Kenia. Yo decid� un�rmele, y pas� un mes entre Maseno, un poblado en la tierra de los l�o, cerca de Uganda, y Nairobi, la capital de Kenia. Este libro resume las notas que hice durante mi viaje, que eran notas llenas de asombro por todo lo nuevo que all� pude ver, y por todos los lazos que descubr� entre los venezolanos y estos pueblos del Africa negra.
Barry Harrington's visit to Kenya.
CBM International - EN - Related Projects.
Curriculum and Instruction 615. Most of the school and institutions that were set up for students with disabilities were begun by missionaries or religious organizations. The Salvation Army established the oldest school for the blind in Thika, and Catholic missionaries begun several schools for deaf children.
Deaf students dancing beautifully at Machakos School for the Deaf!
EENET. (2005). Transforming education systems to respond to all learners: Experience from Oriang Cheshire Inclusive Education Project. This paper highlights the key initiatives undertaken through the support of Leonard Cheshire International (LCI) to rehabilitate persons with disabilities using a community-based participatory approach. This is in line with the resolution and education master plan of the Jomtien Conference of 1990 which states in one of the articles: '.. steps need to be taken to provide equal access to education to every category of disabled persons as an integral part of the education system.'
Kenya: Teaching HIV Prevention Through Sign Language (August 2006).
Kibarani School.This clip includes the following shots at the Kibarani School for the Deaf: an introduction to the school by Gary Olsen, classrooms built by Rotarians, the construction of a hearing aid, and disbursements of candy to students. Spliced and edited by Michael Olsen.
kimerimeti: Pupils of Kibarani School for the Deaf, Kilifi, Kenya. Kimerimeti is Kiswahili for firefly. A lightning bug who shines its light in unexpected places at unexpected times is a metaphor germane to my experiences in Kenya.
Mwarania, S. (14 August 1996). Letter. The second recipient of the International Deaf Education and Advancement Fund scholarship was Santina Mwarania in 1995. She wrote the following letter to explain what she knows of life for deaf and hard of hearing people in Kenya at the time she left home in 1990 and her plans for when she returns.
NDCS.
(nd). Kenya.The Kenya Society for Deaf Children have produced a series of information leaflets for parents covering a range of topics. "Assessment of hearing loss in Children." (1080 kb) This leaflet provides information on when to assess a child's hearing and the most common types of assessment that are available. "Hearing Aids." (1217 kb) This leaflet explains all about the different types of hearing aids, where they are available and how to use and care for them. "How to Communicate with the Deaf." (1661 kb) This leaflet explains all the different types of communication used by deaf and hard of hearing children. "Services available in Kenya." (1828 kb) This leaflet provides information about all the different services available in Kenya for deaf and hard of hearing children. It inclusdes information about how to access hearing aids, interpretation, speech therapy, and schools for deaf children. "What is the impact of hearing impairment?" (1835 kb) This is a leaflet gives basic information about how hearing loss can affect a child and their family and gives ideas about where a child can go for support. "Noise pollution and its effects/" (81 kb) This leaflet gives basic information on the effects of noise pollution in and around the workplace as well as statistics on the dangers of noise pollution.
(2006, February 26). Rights Based Best Practices in Working with Deaf Children. In Kenya many deaf children are unaware of their rights. Deaf children's specific needs are not met in planning or policy making, and deaf children are not mentioned specifically in the national budget, family protection bill or HIV/AIDS bill. This project will enable us to develop a proactive deaf children's rights lobby group at a national level to ensure increased awareness of deaf children's rights, the inclusion of a deaf children's agenda in the national budget.
(2005, February 1). Training for parents in Kenyan Sign Language. KSDC will use volunteers to raise awareness and generate interest in the project. Trainers from the University of Nairobi sign language research project will then train a group of 40 parents in sign language. A training of trainers (TOT) approach will be used which will equip these parents with the skills to offer basic KSL training to other members of their communities. The parents will also then deliver a home-based training programme to 60 deaf children, 40 siblings and 40 parents. Parents groups will be established and will be supported in lobbying activities. Youth groups will also be established for young deaf people who have not attended school and educated young people who have a good grasp of KSL will lead these groups. Three 30-week play schemes will also be started in four of the largest slums of Nairobi and these will offer basic KSL training to young children and will encourage parents to consider their children's education in the future.
Reje, I. I The Kwale School for the Deaf is situated at Kwale town nearby D.C�s office in Matuga division, Kwale district, coast province, Kenya. It is a mixed boarding school with deaf children coming from different parts of the Kwale district. It has boarding facilities for both boys and girls and for the deaf blind children for deaf blind unit which is under the main school.
Shettle, A. (2004, Spring). Deaf Children with Additional Disabilities in Developing Countries, Kenya and Kenya resources.
Center for Disease Control. (29 August 2002). Kenya: Shocking revelations on HIV/AIDS and deaf children.
DeafToday.
(2004, April 7). Inside a VCT Centre for the Deaf.Long ignored in the HIV/Aids awareness campaigns, deaf people can now learn all there is to know about Aids at this centre, which is staffed with people who can communicate using sign language.
(2004, March 28). For Africa's Deaf and Blind, AIDS Is an Unknown Language. To say AIDS in Kenyan Sign Language requires placing the index finger and thumb of both hands close to the face, which is supposed to be a re-creation of the skeletal appearance of a victim on the verge of death.
(2004, January 14). Beauty Breaking the Silence On HIV. "Aids knows no disability!" Susan Mwikali's signs as she runs barefoot on the white expanse of the Serena beach in Mombasa. Tugging along is Kenya's First Lady, Mrs Lucy Kibaki. The two are shooting the first HIV/AIDS commercial.
(2003, December 16). EA Projects Win World Bank Grants. A Tanzanian project using rats to detect tuberculosis and a Kenyan initiative teaching Aids awareness through Kiswahili sign language are among the winners of a World Bank competition that awards grants for creative responses to development challenges.
(2003, December 10). NGO wins Sh7m Aids award. A Kenyan organisation has won Sh6.8 million World Bank award for promoting Aids awareness among the deaf. The HIV Awareness Project of the Deaf (Kenya) was honoured particularly for its creativity.
Lacey, M. (2004, March 28). Julie Guberman, a deaf Peace Corps volunteer from Chicago who works at the Kibarani School for the Deaf in Kenya. To say AIDS in Kenyan Sign Language requires placing the index finger and thumb of both hands close to the face, which is supposed to be a re-creation of the skeletal appearance of a victim on the verge of death.
Sahaya International. HIV Awareness Project of the Deaf, Kenya.
DeafTODAY.
(2005, May 9). Immersion in deaf culture in Kenya was eye-opening.Amber Martin attended mainstream schools while growing up in St. Paul. Martin, who is deaf, started becoming involved with the deaf community during high school. Recently, Martin led a team of volunteers to Kenya, where they worked with administrators, sign language interpreters and deaf students at a teacher's college.
(2004, September 1). Another VCT for the Deaf Opened. The second Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centre (VCT) for deaf people has been opened in Mombasa.
(2004, August 5). Teacher takes skills with deaf students to Kenya. Oberstein returned late last month from a teaching trip to the St. Angela's School for the Deaf in Mumias, a town of about 40,000 in a farming region in the western part of the country. She spent nearly four weeks there, mentoring instructors and teaching students.
(2003, September 24). Nickson Kakiri of Kenya Receives First World Deaf Leadership Scholars Fund. Nickson Ochieng Kakiri, a junior at Gallaudet, is the first recipient of the World Deaf Leadership Scholars Fund which will cover his entire college expenses including the cost of internships related to achieving a degree... "My dream is to set up a program at a university in Kenya for deaf and hard of hearing people to prepare them to come to Gallaudet to pursue their education and develop leadership skills."
(2003, July 2). 226000 deaf children out of school, says union. Two hundred and twenty six thousand children in Kenya with hearing impairments have no access to formal education, the Kenya Society for Kenya Society of the Physically Handicapped (KSPH) has revealed.
(2002, November 1). Disabled to support Kibaki. Disability Electoral Power, a National lobby group for the disabled, has declared their support for Opposition Presidential candidate Mwai Kibaki. The group consists of the Kenya Union for the Blind, Kenya Association for the Deaf, and Kenya Society for the Physically Handicapped.
Miles, M. (2005). Deaf people living and communication in African histories, c. 960s - 1960s. There is strong documentary evidence that deaf or hearing impaired men and women, girls and boys, did occupy social space and took roles across the full spectrum of life throughout Africa in earlier centuries, living lives like everyone else and also having some different experiences. Traces and signs of deaf people appear in many sorts of historical document, such as travellers' accounts, legal and genealogical records, government, institutional and missionary archives, linguistic studies, literature, folklore, religious narrative, mime, dance and drama. Many of their experiences have involved severe economic poverty and adversity, stigmatising attitudes and exclusionary practices; yet this has not been the norm everywhere in Africa, and many deaf people have shown great resilience, perseverance, humour and ingenuity in their dealings and communications with the non-deaf world.
Bubu, M. (2007, June 26). Peace Corps standardize our language?!?
International bibliography of sign language - Kenya Sign Language. [Webmaster: Many entries!]
Kenyan Sign Language: A language of Kenya.
Bar-Tzur, D. Indigenous signs for cities: Kenya.
International bibliography of sign language.
SignPuddle. Dictionary Kenya.
Kenya National Association of the Deaf, Kenya.
Deaf Ministries International. Kenya.
General Board of Global Ministries. (2 May 2001). Deaf women study preaching.
McAnally, T. (2001, April 27). Deaf women to take license-to-preach course.
