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Deaf Mission Nominated

Wednesday, 03 March 2010 07:08

CMS workers Andy and Suzy Hart in Tanzania have been in touch to tell us Neema Crafts restaurant has been nominated in a competition run by the telegraph newspaper for best british run restaurants overseas and are in 2nd place but could do with more votes. it would be great for a Deaf Christian mission project to win this The centre provides employment and training to deaf and disabled people in Iringa Tanzania and now has over 100 people employed here over half of whom are deaf. The restaurant is entirely staffed by deaf people.

Can mobilise the Deaf Christian community find votes please? To vote go to http://expatbestofbritish.telegraph.co.uk/restaurant click on review & vote after Neema Crafts description and sign up to vote. fill in the fields and they send you an e-mail, click on the link in this and in the new window go to best restaurant and find neema crafs again and vote. I know this is long winded but we can't help that. Any help you can get in finding votes would be great! we would also like to explore prayer partnerships and mission links with the deaf church in the UK either direct through ourselves or even better via CMS.

To see the stories of some of the Deaf people concerned see the video below (with Tanzanian signs - but quite understandable to BSL user - and English subtitles)

Stori Nne/Four Stories from Usikike/Be Heard Film Project on Vimeo.

You Tube to get auto Subtitles

Saturday, 21 November 2009 13:45

YouTube's parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site. The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English. At first they will only be found on 13 channels.

The software engineer behind the technology, Ken Harrenstien, is deaf. The new system solution combines automatic speech recognition with the current manual caption system.

Sadly the the translation is not always perfect , but Mr Harrenstien says that the technology "will continue to improve with time".

A better alternative is for users to upload a transcript of their video and auto-timing algorithms will match the text to the words as they are spoken.

Deaf Priest Resigns

Wednesday, 12 August 2009 08:29

Deaf Catholic priest, Father Peter McDonough revealed to his congregation at St Joseph's Mission to Deaf People in Salford on Sunday that he had broken his vow of celibacy and that he is leaving the church after confessing he has a four-year-old child.

After a "time of reflection", he decided his responsibility should lie with his family, Salford diocese said.

Interpreter Training

Monday, 11 January 2010 07:48

Trudy Field, a well known Christian interpreter, her son Jonathan and his wife Rebecca are all interpreters and are now working together to start a new business to teach Sign Language interpreting.

The business is called Field Interpreter Training and the three interpreters will be teaching the “180 Training Course”. It is a 2-year, part-time course that will allow successful students to register as MRSLI.

It is the first initial interpreter training to be organised in the Yorkshire region.

Changes at Go Sign!

Monday, 05 October 2009 12:04

Go! Sign's Ministry Director, Laurence Banks, has resigned in order to concentrate on his final year of study at the London School of Theology. The new ministry Director wil be Pastor Raymond Abernethy, from Northern Ireland, who has has agreed to take on the role for one year. Raymond is well known and respected within the Deaf Christian community, both in the UK and overseas. He has worked closely with Go! Sign for a number of years.