Author: Muindi

Experience working on communication and marketing departments and in the broadcast industry. Interested in sustainable development and international relations issues.

Typically, I would need the assistance of a sign language interpreter when interviewing a Deaf person to facilitate communication between us.  Today, however, I am fortunate to have a conversation without an interpreter while talking to George Ochola, 26, a student at Nairobi Aviation College studying Film Production and Camera Operations.  “I am Deaf but hard of hearing. I can speak, but I can’t hear well, so I’m using a device known as a hearing aid that is helping me to produce the sound,” he says.  According to his parents, George’s hearing problem began when he was four. There was…

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