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☆ Blind church band shows Nigeria there's 'ability in disability'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Kazeem Sanni | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Visually impaired pastor Chimaobi Nduka sings with the faithful during blind people's Sunday church service at Bethesda Home for the Blind in Lagos, Nigeria July 2, 2023. REUTERS/Seun SanniLAGOS, July 21 (Reuters) - Every Sunday, worshippers at Bethesda Home Church in Lagos sing and dance to popular hymns. But there's a twist: the drummers, guitarists, keyboard player and choir are all visually impaired. "When (people) start seeing the ability in them, they will believe in them," said Ohakwe, who runs an NGO for visually impaired people. "I want anybody out there, as a visually impaired person or a disabled person, to have in his mind that there is a lot you can still do if you believe in yourself."

Persons: Chimaobi Nduka, Seun Sanni, Chioma Ohakwe, Ohakwe, Nathaniel Ndukwe, Ogungbe Abiola, Abiola, Hereward Holland, Nellie Peyton, Alison Williams Organizations: Bethesda Home, Blind, REUTERS, Seun, Bethesda Home Church, World Bank, Fed, Thomson Locations: Lagos, Nigeria, Seun Sanni LAGOS, Bethesda

☆ Nigerian parents pay school bills with recyclable waste
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Kazeem Sanni | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Fatimoh Adeosun, 48, a parent of a student of My Dream Stead, a low-cost school that accepts recyclable wastes as payment, sorts plastic waste for submission, in Ajegunle, Lagos, Nigeria May 19, 2023. My Dream Stead school, in the sprawling, impoverished Ajegunle neighbourhood where the Adeosuns live, is one of 40 low-cost schools in Nigeria's commercial capital that accept recyclable waste as payment. Tuition fees at My Dream Stead stand at $130 per year and the school is expanding into a second apartment block to accommodate its 120 pupils. Some mornings, Fatimoh and Fawas walk to the school together with bulging sacks of rubbish over their shoulders. The waste is weighed on school premises and its sales value added to Fawas' account.

Persons: Adeosun, Stead, Temilade Adelaja, Fawas Adeosun, Fatimoh, Alexander Akhigbe, Seun Sanni, Sofia Christensen, Matthew Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, Temilade, Fawas, Thomson Locations: Ajegunle, Lagos, Nigeria, Temilade Adelaja LAGOS, Nigerian, recyclables

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