Wesley Nolan's English Channel Swim 2017

I will be swimming 21 miles across the English Channel Solo from 15th August 2017 where I hope to raise €10,000 for the Irish Deaf Society

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In August 2017, I’ll be swimming across the English Channel Solo from Dover to Cap Gris Nez in France. I am doing this to raise money for the Irish Deaf Society to support their Irish Sign Language recognition campaign – and I’m hoping you will help me.  You might be wondering why I want to back this campaign when I have been living in London for several years. Language barriers still remain in the workplace – and in hospitals, GP clinics, in schools and so on. I strongly believe that to change this, Irish Sign Language has to be recognised. With ISL recognition public services will have to make themselves accessible to deaf people and remove these Language barriers. I think it will also open up the world of employment to deaf people. The Irish Deaf Society (IDS) has been campaigning for ISL recognition for over 30 years and they are now getting closer and closer to their goal but there’s still a lot of work to be done. The IDS would like to take on extra staff to help with the increased workload that will come as the campaign gathers speed – but for this they need funds. So I want to raise €10,000 to contribute towards this. Swimming the English Channel was a dream before but now I have turned it into a real goal. I started planning this two years ago and since then all my weekends and evenings have been spent training and it is very tough. But the support of my family and friends has helped me to keep going.  ISL recognition was a pipedream three decades ago but the Irish Deaf Society turned it into a goal and has been lobbying and campaigning for several years.  I share the same dream that many Irish Deaf people have – that of an Irish society where we are all equal. ISL recognition will bring us closer to that goal.

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