Teaching Blind Students in Senegal

In Senegal, Sightsaver fights to campaign for the rights of people with disabilities to participate equally in society, leaving no one behind. The organization in corporation with the Senegalese government runs three schools in Dakar to educate blind and visually impaired students alongside other students in the community. The project is crucial in changing the perception within the local community that blind children are unable to learn. Aliouné Ba is a teacher at the school. On top of his busy day job, he also volunteers as an itinerant teacher four evenings a week, helping blind students by visiting them in their homes to give additional support. He’s a quiet, softly spoken man, but when talking to his fellow students, it’s easy to see just how important his work is to them as with his mentoring: they feel that they can achieve anything in life.

For more information, visit https://www.sightsavers.org/stories/2019/03/mbathios-story/