Annotations for Participant مشارك: Yusef

Public education needs to change. All the teachers need to learn sign language fluently so that they can teach Arabic properly, instead of just letting whatever slide. Because that's our right, the right of any Deaf person.

My name is Yusef and my name sign is [index finger on chin].

I'm 22 years old.

2002, I was born in 2002.

I'm from a part of Egypt which is the governorate of Alexandria and I've been living here up until now.

I was born deaf originally, thank God [alhamdullilah].

So I was born originally-

My mother and father, they're deaf.

My father was also born deaf originally like normal.

And I have a hearing brother he's the older one and I'm the younger one.

What?

I was born Deaf, God gave me my Deafness.

I know that for God to give me Deafness from birth is normal. Of course there are other types of disabilities, like blindness, mental disability, etc. I'm healthy and normal and I thank God for that.

From my parents, friends from the Deaf Fraternal Society in Mansheyya, before from school at Al-Amal, and also from the Asdaa' association -- all of these experiences gave me signing.

I went to a Deaf public school, the Al-Amal school for the Deaf in Gianaclis.

At first, I went to public school.

Private school was expensive, I couldn't afford it.

So I went to a Deaf public school, you know, the Al-Amal School for the Deaf, that's the one I went to.

The public education wasn't so great, so then I came here to the Asdaa' Association where they have educational programs.

I learned many new things and got to travel abroad.

And of course it changed my future. I got a new kind of international job, since 2019 I've been a coach and gotten to travel abroad to Germany.