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The word without technological barriers for persons living with Disabilities
Selecting Persons with Disabilities, [THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED/BLIND, DEAF/HARD OF HEARING AND THE MOBILITY IMPAIRED,] for the technological skills based training program in Liberia:
And connecting them to the main strea of the technology sector through intensive awareness and advocacies, thereby, giving them an opportunity to create for themselves a technological space that is barrier free, in other to work and school with non-disabled persons in the same space, hereby breaking the chain of discrimination and dehumanization.
The problem
Education Awareness
Empowering Accessibility
Changing Perceptions
Website Accessibility
Shifting Paradigms
Economic Barriers
Inclusive Virtual Reality
Inclusive Employment
Fundraising for the blind and causes you care about
The Blind and the Digital Age in Liberia
A number of technologies had been designed because of the blind. The scanner, the Keyboard, speech synthesisers or voiceovers. Looking at these innovations that are in daily use by the sighted as well as the blind, shouldn’t we believe that the twenty-first century, the digital age is made to close the gap between the blind and the sighted? Isn’t the fact that the first person who hacked the telephone system by imitating the tonal codes, was blind, proof enough that the digital age is an age for us to thrive? Unfortunately, the gap has never been wider!
Although coding is still mainly text-based, talented blind computer users, especially those from the global south, are still rejected to enroll in higher IT science and programming.
According to the census done by the United State Agency for International Development, 2019, persons with disabilities in Liberia cover about 16 % of the total population of 5.5 million. 24 % of all persons with disabilities are visually impaired and only around 10 % of them have basic computer skills.
Unlike several developed countries in the world, Germany, the United States of America, Australia, the United Kingdom, etc, blind persons in Liberia and neighboring countries, are more or less limited in accessing computer knowledge. Many of us, living in the global south, don’t have enough knowledge about the range of technology that is out there and, technology that could be made accessible to us. And if we don’t know, we won’t explore.
Reading articles from or about visually impaired computer scientists surprise me and open a completely new world for me! Especially the analysis of technological, social, and organizational opportunities and challenges of knowledge workers with vision impairment, written by a German Professor, Johannis Kiossis (2019), gives a good insight into how visually impaired employees in the field of administration, education, IT, management and workers in public affairs, are able to work with the help of digital technologies on equal footing with the sighted. In his analysis, he also examines which assistive technologies are usually useful and available to people with visual impairments.

The Founder
MY JOURNEY TO A BRIGHTER WORLD!
It was on a fateful bright Saturday morning, I was ten years old, and I decided to retaliate against my new life full of depression. What others told me later, the time was about 5 o’clock, early in the morning, when I quietly opened the wooden door of the boy's bedroom that I had shared with my brothers. I crawled through the hallway of our house, reaching the front door. Carefully, always in the fear of making a noise, I opened it and walked along the wall of the house, feeling my way forward with my right hand stretched out. Once I reached the end of the wall, I turned to the left and slowly moved forward, step by step. Finally, I touched the edge of the open well, I climbed over and jumped. While falling, I hoped that my life, that was filled with so much sadness and isolation, was finally over!
Well, no, it was not over yet! Luckily, I survived!
