Dear friends and comrades,
What an amazing achievement on the part of Haben Girma and the
disabled fraternity as a whole.
lets continue fighting for the rights and freedoms of persons with
disability in Kenya relentlessly.
one day our efforts shall bear the desired fruits.
let us not stop championing for these rights simply because we have
gotten jobs/big positions.
Let us always remember those persons with disability who are
languishing in abject poverty and acute suffering.
May God grant strength to fulfill all this.
Best wishes,
Samuel
On 12/12/15, Eric Ngondi <eric.ngondi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Laura, Inspirational! especially the Youtube link, please share that!
cheers
On 11/30/15, Jane Ocharo <ocharo.jane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Very encouraging story there Laura, i am touched. thanks for sharing
have a blessed day
Jane Ocharo
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From: Brian Mackey <bmackey88@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 8:12 am
Subject: NFBNJ: Article: Meet Haben Girma, Harvard Law's first
deaf-blind
graduate
To:
Cc: Anil Lewis <alewis@xxxxxxx>, Mark Riccobono <
officeofthepresident@xxxxxxx>, Pare, John <JPare@xxxxxxx>, Joe Ruffalo
(NFBNJ President) <nfbnj1@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Alice Eaddy (Deaf-Blind
Division)
<cheiro_alice@xxxxxxx>
From the desk of NFBNJ President Joe Ruffalo.
Received from Pamela Gaston, NJCBVI.
Meet Haben Girma, Harvard Law’s first deaf-blind graduate *This is
Africa, By* *Arthur Chatora
<http://thisisafrica.me/author/arthurchatora1/>* *on November 18, 2015 —
*Haben
Girma was born deaf-blind but she had access to opportunities afforded
by
the Americans with Disabilities Act. Girma is Harvard Law School’s first
deaf-blind graduate and her academic achievements have catapulted her
advocacy career, fighting for the rights of people with disabilities
[image: Description: Haben Girma poses with President Obama at a White
House ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Americans with
Disabilities Act. (White House photo/Courtesy of Haben Girma)]
<http://thisisafrica.me/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/11/obama-haben-posing.jpg>
*Haben Girma poses with President Obama at a White House ceremony
marking
the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. (White
House
photo/Courtesy of Haben Girma)*
Eritrean-American Haben Girma <https://www.habengirma.com/>, who is the
first deaf-blind graduate at Harvard Law School’s story is a true
inspiration.
Girma <https://twitter.com/habengirma>’s extraordinary story highlights
her courage and determination despite physical challenges, and she is
living proof that disability is certainly no barrier to achieving
academic
excellence.
Girma is an attorney who “advocates for the civil rights of persons with
disabilities. A celebrated speaker, she provided the introductory
remarks
<https://youtu.be/61HzFPs2LXQ> for the 25th Anniversary of the ADA
[Americans with Disabilities Act] at the White House”.
[image: Description: Using a digital device that displays Braille
characters, Haben Girma talks with President Obama at a White House
ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities
Act. (White House photo/Courtesy of Haben Girma)]
<http://thisisafrica.me/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/11/haben_girma-Obama.jpg>
*Using a digital device that displays Braille characters, Haben Girma
talks with President Obama at a White House ceremony marking the 25th
anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. (White House
photo/Courtesy of Haben Girma)*
Her success has been shared and appreciated by many including her
grandmother back in Eritrea. During her introductory remarks
<http://hls.harvard.edu/dept/dos/accessibility/hls-represented-at-white-house-event-celebrating-25-years-of-the-americans-with-disabilities-act/>at
the White House, Girma noted that in Eritrea, “there was simply no
chance,”
for deaf-blind children to go to school. Her grandmother had
difficulties
finding a school in Eritrea for Haben’s older brother, also born
deaf-blind.
Girma’s family moved to the United States, where Haben was born
deaf-blind
but she had access to opportunities afforded by the Americans with
Disabilities Act <http://www.ada.gov/>.
The 27 year-old has achieved a lot despite her disability, “For my
grandmother back in Africa, my success in law school seemed like magic,”
she
says
<http://today.law.harvard.edu/hls-represented-at-white-house-event-celebrating-25-years-of-the-americans-with-disabilities-act/>
.
Girma appreciates the opportunities she has been offered and “the hard
won
power of the ADA.”
Her academic achievements, a “J.D. in 2013 from Harvard, and her B.A.,
magna cum laude, in 2010 from Lewis & Clark College” have indeed
catapulted
her advocacy career which have seen her fighting for the rights of
people
with disabilities.
Watch her TEDxBaltimore Talk:
Source: Haben Girma/ Harvard Law Today
<http://today.law.harvard.edu/hls-represented-at-white-house-event-celebrating-25-years-of-the-americans-with-disabilities-act/>
Forwarded by:
*Brian A. Mackey*
Brian A. Mackey
Owner, Mackey Enterprises, LLC
Secretary, National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey
609-953-6988
Bmackey88@xxxxxxxxx
“Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to
make
those dreams come true”
*-Vince Papale*
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