I sign my name as Albert Iseyan – its funny how I got my second name, I was picked by police officers in Isinya town found in the expansive Maasai land near Kitengela, some 50 Kilometers from heart of Kenya ’s Capital City – Nairobi .
At that point, the police did not understand sign language and neither did I hear what they were asking, and because of my poor physical condition, and the fact that we could not communicate, they decided that it was much safer for me to live in the cells than leaving me in the cold streets.
Miracles happen, am told and I guess I am one of the living miracles. I adopted to living in the police lines and sleeping in the cells like a suspect criminal until one day angels from above visited me at the Isinya Police Station.
Two entrepreneurs with a philanthropic zeal, Fred Maina and Susan Mugwe who had just founded a school for the deaf in the district got wind of my sorry tale and decided to adopt me, but I needed a second name and so they taught me to sign Iseyan – an adaptation of the locality I had been found.
I had lived in the cells for quite sometime – and therefore when the two Angels came for me, its been a struggle adjusting from a hard life to living in the comfort of a decent school with my fellow deaf students making life seem like a butterfly – easy and flowing, unlike where I was in the past a cold police cells with no-one who understands me or whom I could communicate with.
Unfortunately, the two angels who have continued to take me and support me as one of their own are constrained and it is for this reason that I am appealing to you to help support my education and upkeep at the Model Centre for Deaf Education and Training .
I am convinced that your support to the school in either cash or kind can make a difference to my life and that of many like me who have not yet gotten this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study in an environment that is friendly, homely and real.
I am in primary 5 and looking forward to making my mark in the annals of history, and this I can best make when I have gathered the basics of education.
You can post your contribution to:
School Fees Support fund,
At that point, the police did not understand sign language and neither did I hear what they were asking, and because of my poor physical condition, and the fact that we could not communicate, they decided that it was much safer for me to live in the cells than leaving me in the cold streets.
Miracles happen, am told and I guess I am one of the living miracles. I adopted to living in the police lines and sleeping in the cells like a suspect criminal until one day angels from above visited me at the Isinya Police Station.
Two entrepreneurs with a philanthropic zeal, Fred Maina and Susan Mugwe who had just founded a school for the deaf in the district got wind of my sorry tale and decided to adopt me, but I needed a second name and so they taught me to sign Iseyan – an adaptation of the locality I had been found.
I had lived in the cells for quite sometime – and therefore when the two Angels came for me, its been a struggle adjusting from a hard life to living in the comfort of a decent school with my fellow deaf students making life seem like a butterfly – easy and flowing, unlike where I was in the past a cold police cells with no-one who understands me or whom I could communicate with.
Unfortunately, the two angels who have continued to take me and support me as one of their own are constrained and it is for this reason that I am appealing to you to help support my education and upkeep at the Model Centre for Deaf Education and Training .
I am convinced that your support to the school in either cash or kind can make a difference to my life and that of many like me who have not yet gotten this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study in an environment that is friendly, homely and real.
I am in primary 5 and looking forward to making my mark in the annals of history, and this I can best make when I have gathered the basics of education.
You can post your contribution to:
School Fees Support fund,
Albert Iseyan,
Model Center For Deaf Education and Training ,
CFC Bank Account No. 0030023831,
UHMC Branch,
Nairobi , Kenya .
Deutsche Bank Trust Co. NY
Swift Code: BKTRUS33
Sort Code: 021001033
Model Center For Deaf Education and Training ,
CFC Bank Account No. 0030023831,
UHMC Branch,
Nairobi , Kenya .
Deutsche Bank Trust Co. NY
Swift Code: BKTRUS33
Sort Code: 021001033
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