{"id":42742,"date":"2022-11-04T13:36:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T17:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mklm.org\/?p=42742"},"modified":"2022-11-04T13:41:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T17:41:25","slug":"who-are-these-signs-for-anyways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mklm.org\/tanzania\/who-are-these-signs-for-anyways\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Who are these signs for anyways?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42752\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42752\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42752\" src=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/All-the-signs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/All-the-signs.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/All-the-signs-980x451.jpg 980w, https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/All-the-signs-480x221.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1280px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Bwiru Boys Technical School holding up signs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On a sunny Saturday morning in September, students at Bwiru Boys Technical School in Mwanza, where I teach, marched the short walk from the classroom area to the soccer field in solidarity together \u2014 hearing, deaf and of all abilities. The almost 1,000-strong group carried three simple signs \u2014 white sheets stretched between wood rods with words in Swahili stenciled in red block letters. The signs read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Lugha ya alama Mawasiliano kwa Elimu Jumuishi \u2014\u00a0<\/em>Tanzania Sign Language for Integrated Education.<\/li>\n<li><em>Siku ya kuibua vipaji vya wanafunzi wenye mahitaji maalumu \u2014\u00a0<\/em>The day to visualize the abilities of students with special needs.<\/li>\n<li><em>Wanafunzi wenye mahitaji maalumu wakiwezeshwa wanaweza. Familia, Jami and Taifa Tuwawezeshe \u2014\u00a0<\/em>Students with special needs can succeed if their efforts are supported. Families, Community and Nation, let\u2019s support them!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The march wasn\u2019t a protest organized by students, but part of an event planned with the teachers. The short march never left the school property and other than the students, only we teachers would have read the signs. At the time I thought, <em>Who are these signs for anyways?<\/em> Many of the teachers have specific training in special education, including sign language.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Christ\u2019s followers had a similar reaction to his insistence (in today&#8217;s Gospel) about the <a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/21?5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>signs of the end of times<\/strong><\/a>. How many times do I have to be reminded of my own mortality to believe and act on it \u2014 to really live each day with the urgency of a life passing by? How many times I wondered, have I heard, read and repeated, \u201cThe Lord comes to rule the earth with justice,\u201d as in the<a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/Psalms\/98?5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> Psalms<\/strong><\/a> today, and other similar passages about the triumph of justice, and yet still I struggle to actually believe it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42746\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42746\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42746\" src=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Football-teams-lined-up2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Football-teams-lined-up2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mklm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Football-teams-lined-up2-480x169.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The two football teams lined up<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maybe the signs the students carried really were for us. Both students and teachers need the reminders. In our inclusive education environment, sometimes we teachers slip into speaking without using signs, and explanations are thus lost to the Deaf in our classes. In addition to the signs they carried together, the students showed us reminders of their abilities through the activities of the event. They showed off and sold well-built wooden stools they had made in the workshop. Deaf students played a football match, and won, against a team of their hearing peers.<\/p>\n<p>November 13 happens to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomactsofkindness.org\/world-kindness-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>World Kindness Day<\/strong><\/a>, an interreligious effort to promote peace through kindness. What a simple concept, that I need to be reminded of constantly! When I think of working for justice, images that come to mind are ones of marches, civil disobedience, mostly of confrontation. That I might also think of kindness, understanding and empathy as paths to do justice, seems a bit more reachable than the more upending type of activism of my initial impressions.<\/p>\n<p>Extending the message of the students\u2019 signs, we can easily get to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cLearn each other\u2019s languages to understand and appreciate each other\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTake a day to appreciate the success of others.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSpread kindness starting in our Families, Communities, Nation, and between nations!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just like with us teachers, though, in order to put these noble intentions in action, we need plenty of reminders both in word and in action, as well as follow-through with both diligence and kindness, to ourselves and others.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/maryknollogc.org\/resources\/scripture-reflection\/thirty-third-sunday-ordinary-time-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Scripture reflection for the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns<\/strong><\/a>, Nov. 13, 2022 (32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more scripture reflections from Maryknoll lay missioners,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/tag\/scripture\/\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Veryser reads and ponders a few signs of the times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":42743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[786,327,162,429,277,437],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v22.5) - 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