True, one pronounces its kie to rhyme with tie and the other to rhyme with tea; but that can't be much help to postmen.
We are grateful to KIE, but the reality is for many government institutions disability and deafblindness aren't priorities.
After Kie Puafomau, another of the Fijians, reached her husband, he went to the Fijian police, the Ministry of Labor, and the national press.
Three other Republican candidates for the nomination — Brian K. Hill, Kie Westby and Peter Lumaj — did not win enough votes on Friday for an automatic spot on the ballot.
As a result we approached KIE to ask them if they would work with us to create a new national curriculum for deafblind children.
This is a result of a partnership between Sense International Kenya and the Kenyan Institute for Education (KIE) that we hope will result in a much improved standard of education for deafblind children in the country.
Over the next few months we worked with KIE bringing with us a great deal of practical experience from working with deafblind children and their families and a desire to create a curriculum that would improve the standard of teaching for the children and allow us to measure their progress.
"Shoes, when they're thrown on the power line in our neighborhood, they represent the death of someone, gang territory, drugs, prostitution, whatever," Kie said.
