Blind passion - Good Samaritan assists visually impaired students
Published: Thursday | March 5, 2009 Frandido Fairweather and Jody-Ann Leavy, students of the Salvation Army School for the Blind, type notes on Braille machines in the school library. - Photo by Amitabh Sharma Diana Ferguson slips a school handout beneath a computer screen and flicks a button. The text appears on the screen, magnified to enable her to read her notes. For Ferguson, who is partly blind, this machine is her lifeline for reading. A student of the Salvation Army School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (SASB) in St Andrew, she would have, until two months ago, to rely on the sole machine in the school. "We had just one magnifier for the 130 students here," said Iyeke Erharuyi, principal of SASB. It was an act of God, Erharuyi said, that Rupert Simms, a Jamaican-born United States-based businessman, offered assistance. "Last year, Rupert Simms visited the school. When we were taking him around the school premises, he saw t...