Frontrunners

'The Frontrunners is a new vision and initiative, which came as a result of the discussion by youth from 5 different countries. Thus Frontrunners was born last year (September-December 2005). It was such a success that Frontrunners came back as Frontrunners II, with a new team!
The ambition of the Frontrunners, A Deaf International Leadership Training Programme, is to take effort of that each individual has the ability of paving the way to better conditions for the Deaf people, in their country and also worldwide.
Frontrunners is for those Deaf youth who want to take responsibility and to take action. The goal is to give Deaf youth, during and after the Frontrunner program, tools to be ABLE to make a difference. This means to improve the terms for you as an individual, for your nation and finally for Deaf people worldwide.
We will have international Deaf guest speakers, who will present their viewpoints (curious?? Go to “What’s Up and check the program!).
Don’t forget: it is time to change the world!'

I enjoyed reading these blogs about what's going on at Frontrunners in Copenhagen.. it has vlogs too!

Deaf Education Africa Fund

Just remind you that I am a member of DEAF includes 11 members.. I would like you to support us through our fund raising events! Please check out http://www.deafund.com/ for what, why, how, where, when! If you got any wicked ideas, email me!

not good at english

Deaf American woman elisa Abenchuchan's blog that i really like..

'If you are deaf, please get it in your head that your fluency in written English does not define your intelligence. If you use "the" a bit too many times, you are not an idiot. If you say, "please congratulations my wife" instead of "congratulate", that doesn't make you any less smarter.

I've met so many people who say they don't like writing because their English "isn't so good." I've encountered so many students at the tutoring center who say they are horrible writers because teachers destroy their papers with red markings.

And so many people aren't helping, either. They say things like "She isn't that smart, she doesn't have good English." What about her ASL skills? Is English a better language, more advanced than ASL? No way. Yes, admittedly, having good English is really important because we live in a hearing world and one of the ways we communicate with hearies is written communication, but this is just a skill, not a determiner of intelligence.

If a deafie doesn't have great English, it means that he/she wasn't taught the language right, or/and didn't have enough exposure to English while growing up. That's it. I've encountered a lot of people who don't have perfect English but are really good writers because of the things they say, the way they analyze things, or their unique metaphor uses...

Its not how you say it, its WHAT you say.'

See, see!

Don't be hypocritical

I’m British
I have a British identity
I love to learn about the British history
British community is like my family
British slang words is not a real language
Racists don’t want to understand my own British identity
Why do I always use capital ‘B’?
Because of British community
Because of British culture
Because of English language
That’s why I’m nationally British
Also that’s how the British culture engrossed me all my life

I’m Deaf
I have a Deaf identity
I love to learn about the Deaf history
Deaf community is like my family
Signed English is not a real language
Surdophobics don’t want to understand my own Deaf identity
Why do I always use capital ‘D’?
Because of Deaf community
Because of Deaf culture
Because of British Sign Language
That’s why I’m culturally Deaf
Also that’s how the Deaf culture engrossed me all my life


By Ashton Phillip ©