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January 2015
Hat tries to lift ‘curse’ 3
Graduate takes on deaf school mission FREDRIKKE VON Z WONGRAVEN GRADUATE Hat Milsted has swapped the cosmopolitan city of Liverpool for the heart of Africa. The former international development student has been working with charity Project Riandu, in central Kenya, helping to build a school for deaf children. She said: ‘Disability is often seen as a curse in Kenya and deaf children are commonly kept at home and not sent to school, as shameful members of the family.’ Hat, who studied at the University of Liverpool, went to Riandu in August last year to work as a construction assistant on the project, which is being designed and managed by locals for the community. She is now communications manager for the UK core team and says the project’s success relies on local backing. ‘A project is unlikely to
have much effect on the local people if it’s designed and implemented by a foreign party,’ she said. ‘Imagine a group of foreign people coming to build a roof on the bombed church, painting it, smiling at you condescendingly, thinking they had helped your life improve and then leaving. The first phase of building the boarding school, a secondary that will take 200 children, should be completed this month, in time for the first term. There are expansion plans for a second part of the school, where the team hopes to raise enough support to build a kitchen and more dormitories. Project Riandu is still looking for both monetary and voluntary support. If you are interested in working alongside people from different cultures and gaining a range of skills, visit www. projectriandu.com.
Working together: Former University of Liverpool student Hat Milsted is helping to build a school, above, for deaf children in eastern Kenya, left PICTURES: HAT MILSTED/PROJECT RIANDU
That’s enough toilet talk
On track: Phase one, to build a light-maximising classroom, is almost complete
IF you don’t know how to use the loo by the time you get to university, you could be in serious trouble. It’s just as well someone has thought of everything and published ‘toilet etiquette’ signs. The posters have appeared in University of Liverpool buildings and show the correct way to sit on the toilet (not stand or squat), how to flush (with your hand, not a foot)
Sign: Bathroom etiquette and where to wash your hands (not your feet). It is believed the signs have been introduced to the campus to
encourage international students to recognise and adopt Western bathroom etiquette. Matt Welch, 21, a history student at UoL, said: ‘It’s not rocket science. I guess the fact that they have to put those signs up points to a much larger inability of the university or its partners to educate [international students] about very basic culture.’ Portia Fahey
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