Last week (Sep 14, 2012) we managed to get a closer look on the 2 dogs on campus. Thanks to the vet in charge at AAE (Animal Aid Egypt) Dr Esraa Jad, we managed to give them the necessary injection shots and will follow up on them every couple of weeks. The good news is that they had 9 cute puppies [Masha'Allah], and we are currently looking for someone trusted to adopt them and find them a new home, away from the risky life on campus and the dangerous human beings! This is a video we took for the puppies after a big milk party ^^
It’s been a while since I shared something on Shack of Hope. There is always this time when you want to write a lot of posts then you just get busy and loose track of everything.
A very valuable advice is to write everything down right away! No delays!
Mind mapping is something robust, it helps in visualizing what’s in your mind on a piece of paper, you don’t need lots of papers and paragraphs to scroll down to infinity in order to describe a project or a task that is made up of multiple sub-tasks, this is where the mind map comes in.
Center your main topic, or project title in the middle of the paper and start branching up every simple detail of the other sub-tasks. However complex it’s made up of simple fragments right?
Animal Aid Egypt is a registered NPO (Non-Profit Organization).
Founded in Egypt on December 2008.
Animal Aid Egypt is aimed at helping animals including cats, dogs, working animals [donkeys, mules, horses and camels], wild life animals and farm animals [cows, sheep, goats and pigs], birds and native animals.
It’s considered the first animal rights organization in Alexandria, Egypt; helping animals on the streets and providing shelter to them as well as adoption services.
Most people react negatively towards deaf community which is not a perfect feeling for a Deaf or Hard of Hearing person!
Deaf are humans, they feel, love, hate, create, think, and dream. I’m not deaf, but lately I’ve been so close to the deaf community especially creative deaf kids at some local organizations like Asdaa’ Association for the Hearing Impared, and Resala organization. I can tell that the deaf community are more talented than hearing people, they have the advantage of blocking unwanted distractions and sounds, so they can concentrate with high levels.
They really need the people to treat them equally. Deaf is not a disease, you should interact with them, some people would find it difficult to interact with the deaf and hard of hearing but it’s not that difficult, and you don’t have to learn sign language in order to have a successful conversation. You can interact with deaf or hard of hearing who can read lips, just talk normal but slow your speed a little bit, and I mean it -a little- so they can understand. Don’t stress on words and talk louder, you would just scramble the letters on your lips and make the situation worse.
You should also be aware of the most familiar signs in the sign language, just some words to survive for example the words: deaf, greetings, directions, time, date, and so on.
Finally I’d like to recommend the following video by our active member at Shack of Hope (Rebecca Toft) her video is featuring various Hearing Aids used by the deaf and hard of hearing, and also featuring someone from the deaf community talking about his experience.
The deaf and hard of hearing kids won the cups in the robot competition and represent Egypt in an International competition for robots.
FIRST LEGO League ( or as known as FLL) is an international competition for elementary and middle school students. It is arranged by the FIRST organization.
At the end of the local competition for robot and scientific research (First LEGO League – Egypt) loud applause was heard in the Alexandria Center for Innovation after announcing (Falcon Eye) team, The deaf and hard of hearing team, to be the winner as first place all over Egypt.
The final included 15 teams. This success was under the supervision of ASDAA’ Association for Serving the Hearing Impaired and the Arab Academy for Science and Technology.
If i didn’t have a cochlear implant, i wouldn’t even know the meaning of sound.
It all happened when i was born, when my parents was told that i failed my hearing screening at hospital. For the past of two years, i was unable to hear anything, not even voices of my parents and siblings. My parents did try and get me some hearing aids. However they wasn’t powerful enough and didnt work for me. some months went past…
On a random day, my parents received a phone call, from a doctor. Saying that there was a chance for me to hear for the first time… by having a cochlear implant. My parents was so relived and was in joy of tears, knowing that one day i would able to hear their voices.
