Following on from the program’s support for the Teacher Brailler Training in June, Yohana Meluk from Fuan Nabilian facilitated vocational training for the blind children and teenagers from Fuan Nabilan in early July in Kupang, Indonesia.
With this training, Yohana says,
“They begin to believe in themselves, they can have a fairly extensive knowledge about themselves and about the life of a blind person…. They can mingle with fellow blind people with different problems, but they can accept each other and live together in one community. This really opens up horizons of blind children from Fuan Nabilan who still have a narrow insight about their own future prospects.”
These young visually impaired individuals were taught skills in handicrafts and massage therapy, which can become valuable sources of income otherwise inaccessible with their impairment.
Rafia ropes can be easily purchased at a local store and woven into dusters and other handicrafts and become a popular income generation source for blind people in Timor Leste.
