Blind Abilities Podcast

Every day we are blasted with news updates on the impact of the Corona virus on people in our cities, states and countries, but have we heard specific reports of its effect on blind and visually impaired individuals?   This series brings you stories from around the World from a Blindness perspective. Despite the similarities around the world, we are still learning new aspects of Covid-19 and, more importantly, how our fellow blind and visually impaired colleagues are being affected by it. So, we continue our travels, our journey around the world with Covid-19, and focus on the blindness perspective: Brigitte Lablache is an articulate woman with talents, drive, initiative and overall life experiences which have allowed her to rise to a position of leadership in the blindness community in Seychelles. She shares many of those experiences with us, such as being bored in a public school because her teachers were ill-equipped to properly address her needs as a blind student; her initiative in learning both grade 1