Twenty-three-year-old Blessing Amina Samuel noticed she was different from others when she was a child growing up with albinism in the interior of Kilifi County. Her community made it clear to her that she was unique. It was in their long stares or the groups that would start talking about her as soon as she passed them.

When her eyesight began to fail, Amina enrolled in Likoni Primary School for the Blind in Grade 6. Despite her low vision, Amina excelled in school. When she graduated from high school, inABLE took notice and offered her a coding internship to help her prepare to become a computer instructor.

Amina has spent the last year as an intern at inABLE, learning javascript, HTML, and CSS. As a result, she can now create basic websites on her own. Amina hopes to become a computer programmer in the future and help blind and visually impaired students learn basic computer skills so they can become self-sufficient.

We are very proud of Amina and her peers’ accomplishments, which have been made possible by accessible technology and their resilience, and we wish her the very best.

Written By: inABLE Public Relations Officer Esther Njeri Mwangi