Sign2Sing is the annual fundraising event of the Deaf Health Charity SignHealth raising money to give Deaf children a brighter and healthier future in the UK and Uganda. Sign2Sing 2016 takes place from 1-7 February but you can get involved now on our website, sign2sing.org.uk.
Lauren Hostovsky: As you may or may not know, only two percent of Deaf people worldwide have access to education in sign language. How are Deaf children supposed to learn?
Many Deaf and Hard of Hearing children the world over do not have access to education, often because they are viewed as mentally challenged, unimportant, mute. This appeal is about making the world a better and safer place for Deaf children everywhere, but specifically in a very special place called Monze, Zambia.
In the village of Monze, Zambia, we are trying to build a school for over 60 Deaf and Hard of Hearing children whose parents and guardians have no resources to give them the proper education, health care and adequate living conditions needed to ensure their survival. We want to build a school in which to instruct and house these children, but also to create the kinds of self-sustaining projects that will be necessary to keep the school up and running once it has been constructed.
The Zambian government does not care about these children, and their parents are often uneducated and helpless. There is currently only one teacher working with the children of Monze, Zambia. Her name is Lisa Zahra, and she has been working tirelessly to provide appropriate education and protection for these Deaf and Hard of Hearing children.
VIDEO: Be sure you know for whom you donating money. There's a new trend here, gypsies asking for money in the streets for disabled people.
BERLIN, Germany - Tourists are targeted by scam and rip-off artists everywhere in Europe. We were actually prepared for gypsies/scammers.
The old adage is a good one to remember when in Berlin and dealing with some of the shadier people that prey on tourists.
The gypsies people approached with petitions, claiming it was for the handicapped. At first it seemed nothing of interest, but now there are many of them, some even caught multiple times or there are multiple arrests during one day.
Here's how they work. They printed a blank on which people can sign and donate money for disabled people.
The funny thing is, text is translated with Google Translate from one language to lithuanian with errors, text above would read this:
Certificate region network - Deaf and physically inferior - For poor and children - We want international center make (make construction equipment)
But people still donate money. Also, they written some signs and how much someone "donated"
So people would give relatively as much as in the blank. They would run away from cameras and are not from this country. So, when luck will ran out here, I guarantee they will head north to Scandinavia and to the west.
So, how to recognize one? Gibberish Google Translated text, fear of cameras and not knowing native language. They could not explain this "donation" thing in more detail. So, from good will don't be robbed in the middle of the day. ... Read more: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=62b_1379069998
