Sarah and her good work

Here is a story of a truly wonderful woman and her husband’s efforts to bring a connection to the hearing world for some hearing impaired students. This photo was taken in El Nido, an incredibly beautiful location on Palawan. Sarah is the Director of a facility an hour outside of Puerto Princesa dedicated to teaching sign language and basic schooling to students aged from 12 to 45. Sarah is in the center of her group of students on an outing sponsored by the mayor of El Nido. A large percentage of the hearing impaired in the Philippines never learn to communicate using sign language and so are sentenced to a life in not only a silent world but a world in which they have no way at all to communicate with the hearing other than basic gestures.