The Guyana Deaf Education  Project: Train the ASL Trainer Workshop: Gallery: High Resolution Links
 

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Deaf students at the David Rose School in Georgetown, Guyana:

Dr. Bill teaching the "Circle Game" at the National Center for Educational Resource Development:

Avril Lake, a teacher at South Ruimveldt Park Primary School in Guyana, learns how to create a special
handshape useful for entertaining young children.

Dr. Bill and Sean Thomas connect during a "string game"

Train the Sign Language Trainer: Guyana:  logo

Where's Bill?  Kaiteur Falls, Guyana

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"Demerara Dusk"  (2008, July)

Photographer: William G. Vicars
Equipment: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ7.
Taken from the river deck of the Prairie International Hotel at Coverden, East Bank Demerara, in Guyana, South America (about 15 miles from Georgetown).

Photographer notes:
"My group had arrived at the river shortly after nightfall. The river was quite dark.  I could only see blackness. Fortunately my Lumix saw a completely different scene.  I steadied the camera on the wooden railing and dialed in an ISO of 1250. The shot resulted in some amazing blues and a wonderful memory."

Backstory:
The Demerara River is a river in eastern Guyana that rises in the central rainforests of the country and flows to the north for 346 kilometres until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. A Dutch colony of the same name was once established along the river's banks. The colony founded a sugarcane industry that continues to thrive to this day  (Wikipedia, 2008). Sugar from this industry is used to make the widely exported El Dorado Rum -- which in turn takes its name from the legends of the lost city of gold believed by many to be hidden in the rainforests of Guyana.