"I have been visually impaired since birth. As
a visually impaired person, I have faced several challenges including
discrimination and delays in my education. In other places I’ve been to, they
don’t allow us (visually impaired) to touch the computer systems but here at
KIR Foundation, we were allowed to touch and work with the computer system and
when we don’t understand,
they take time to explain to us so that we can
understand”. – Chidindu Ruth Nwa-Jesus
Chidindu
Ruth Nwa-Jesus is a twenty-two year old visually impaired young lady. She loves
to read, operate computers and dance. As a visually impaired individual,
Chidindu as a visually impaired youth has faced several challenges including
discrimination and delays in her education. In 2015, Chidindu and her younger
sister, Esther Nwa-Jesus, who is also visually impaired, visited the KIR
Foundation Inclusive Resource and Rehabilitation Centre. The sisters spoke
about their desire to learn computer appreciation which would strengthen their
capacity and dreams of going to university.
In
their discussion with the KIR Foundation team, they spoke about friends, who
are blind and lacked braille slates; and also had the desire to learn ICT. They
asked if KIR Foundation could organize ICT training for persons with visual
impairment. Regrettably, the KIR Foundation team had to tell them that we
lacked the resources to carry out the trainings. Furthermore, the sisters and
their friends received braille slates from KIR Foundation to aid their academic
studies.
Subsequently,
KIR Foundation wrote to Small World International Women’s Organization for Charity
for a donation of laptops with Job Access with Speech (JAWS) for the visually
impaired. As a result of the partnership with Small World, KIR Foundation started
the ICT training for four visually impaired beneficiaries at the KIR Foundation
Inclusive Resource and Rehabilitation Centre on the 17th of July 2017.
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