NFCS OOU TRIP TO THE “SCHOOL OF THE BLIND”
The Nigerian Federation of Catholic Students (NFCS) Olabisi Onabanjo University chapter, on Saturday 17th of March 2012 visited the school of the blind at Ijebu Igbo Ogun state.
On getting there the students (NFCS) were shocked to see the blind walking from one place to another, making crafts, washing cloths and spreading them, doing the normal works as though they have sight.
The blind students welcomed them, the Catholic students introduced themselves and an interactive session began, everyone was thrown into laughter when one of them said we operate phones, do other things more than those who have sight.
During the interactive session, the head teacher shared her experience she said she has been blind for over four decades; she was a student (School of the Blind) in 1992 and in 1996 she became a teacher and since then she has been teaching the students.The Senior girl of the school Eniola Oladimeji, said it started in 2007 after her secondary school certificate examination (SSCE) she felt itches in her eyes but proper care was not taken so it resulted to Glaucoma (a disease of the eye which leads to blindness) and since then she has been in the School of the Blind. She added, notwithstanding our brains are working effectively so we can do things with the aid of our other sense organs, but I want to advise and urge people to take proper care of their eyes if you find anything wrong with it make sure you take good care of it because glaucoma could affect anyone.
Speaking with OOU Vanguard, the senior boy of the school Ejiri Moses said “I was not born blind it started in 2009 when someone hit me in the left eye, a surgery was carried out and after the surgery few months later the left eye went completely blind and after some time it affected the second eye so it resulted to total blindness but thanks to Dr. Bodunde from St. Mary eye clinic who gave me a note to come here in 2011 and since then I have been well accommodated, using braille to study. I had lost hope because everyone abandoned me except my aged mother and the school of the blind who has been taken good care of me, but I still nurture the dream to be an actor.
Also speaking, the NFCS President Paul Oghoghorie, said in fact am overwhelmed, these students work and do things as though they can see, I am well assured if they can see they will take over the world, look around they make chairs, bags, key holders, make art works, these people are creative and talented, my prayer for them is that may God grant them sight once again.
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