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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.86,0:00:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patrich Otema is 15 years old
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.09,0:00:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was born deaf\Nbut in this remote region
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.22,0:00:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Northern Uganda, there are no school for deaf children
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.01,0:00:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in his whole life, Patrick has never had a conversation
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.37,0:00:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello. you good?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.65,0:00:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his father, Charles, looks after him
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.16,0:00:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are only able to communicate through very basic gestures
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.59,0:00:42.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've been sitting here and talking about Patrick in front of him
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.21,0:00:45.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and while he's been watching us\Nhe doesn't understand what we're saying
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.27,0:00:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it feels almost rude\Nbut this is what Patrick's life is like all the time
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.64,0:00:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm here with someone who wants to change all that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.14,0:00:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Raymond Okkelo is deaf himself\Nand a sign language teacher
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.00,0:01:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you think he could learn sign language?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.35,0:01:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is pretty much Patrick's existence
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.40,0:01:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his father gestures him what he wants him to do
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.13,0:01:23.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when he's finished, he goes back to his hut
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.34,0:01:25.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to spend the rest of the day on his own
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.82,0:01:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patrick's fate is not unusual
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.02,0:01:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the majority of deaf people in Sub-saharan Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.03,0:01:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have never been taught sign language
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.04,0:01:43.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unable to communicate with others,\Nthey're trapped in their own minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.79,0:01:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Raymond became deaf as a child after about of malaria
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.44,0:02:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,six months ago, he traveled to the capital for intensive training in sign language
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.39,0:02:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now he returned to his village\Nto do something unprecedented
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.09,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's going to teach the first sign language course ever set up here
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.24,0:02:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Raymond, are you nervous?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.66,0:02:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's 2 o'clock, the first deaf students start turning up
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.57,0:02:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the class begins
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.67,0:02:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the course has already started,\Nbut Patrick hasn't turned up yet
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.45,0:02:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm worried his father couldn't convince him to leave home
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.98,0:02:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a few minutes later, Patrick arrives
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.18,0:03:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patrick's transformation is amazing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.78,0:03:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's almost impossible to believe it's the same boy we met yesterday
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.61,0:03:45.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,new deaf students keep arriving
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.40,0:03:50.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many have walked miles to be here
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.48,0:03:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a 9-year-old boy\Nand an 80-year-old woman
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.03,0:04:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the end of the class,\Neach new student goes to the front
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.41,0:04:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the class votes on a new name for them
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.83,0:04:09.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is now Patrick's sign name
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.29,0:04:12.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he will use it for the rest of his life
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.11,0:04:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he has just been baptized into a whole new world