The Kenyan café that helps fight discrimination against deaf people - BBC News

Most waiters at one Kenyan café are deaf, so customers use sign language, mimes or gestures.

Image source, Peter Njoroge/BBC Image caption, Edward Kamande, who joined as a waiter, is now the manager of Pallet Cafe In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe visits a café in Kenya which is trying to change perceptions of people with disabilities. Tucked behind a non-descript gate in an affluent neighbourhood of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, is a social experiment that points the way to how the prospects of deaf people can be transformed. By employing deaf staff, who have faced discrimination in almost every aspect of their lives, the Pallet Cafe shows how integration

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