BEING born deaf has never stood in the way of Ipswich woman Ceilidh O'Sullivan's ambition.
The Peak Crossing 22-year-old, who completely lost her hearing as a teenager - was a successful BMX rider before she embarked on a mission to help deaf kids in Africa.
After receiving a life changing cochlea implant and learning to listen and speak again, Ms O'Sullivan joined the Boanerges Deaf Initiative and has since taken a key role in establishing schools specifically for deaf kids in the central African country of Uganda.
She has become the Australian representative of the not-for-profit organisation, which looks after the needs of 35 hearing impaired children in the capital, Kampala, plus another 90 children in the north of the country, and about 40 in the east.
"Deaf children are seen as a curse in Uganda - being deaf is viewed as a disease," Ms O'Sullivan said.
"I felt I had to go there to teach them that deafness is OK and it is not a sickness."
I would LOVE to compile a collection of inspirational stories of deaf people who change the world! I think it would be great for Brooke to read one day!
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