After losing his sight in 2020 due to an unsuccessful operation, Ugandan Teacher Alfred Wamani was forced to quit his teaching job at a local secondary school. A job he loved doing. He joined a computer literacy skills school for the blind and grew his business and computer skills and pitched a winning business idea at a startup capital competition. The story is about Alfred Wamani, a person with visual impairment who is beating all odds to make ends meet - from the psychological implications of visual impairment and financial shocks of covid-19 and shows disability is not inability.

This story was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Juliet Kasirye and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.