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Empowering the deaf is her calling

Principal New image beauty college and Spa, Risper Ouko [right] and College Director, Joseph Onyango [2nd right] are joined by students after their graduation in Mombasa. 24th December 2414. Photo Omondi Onyango/Standard

About 10 years ago, Risper Ouko’s unquenchable desire to help the disabled saw her enroll a mute student at her beauty college in Mombasa.

As we sit down for an interview at her beauty salon-cum-college, the Germany-trained cosmetologist proudly displays a photograph of the hearing impaired girl who was among her first bunch of students and who currently runs a salon in Nairobi.

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