A 25-year-old woman known as Haben Girma stunned academicians around the world after she graduated from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, US.
What placed Haben on the world radar spans from her exceptional feat of graduating with a Juris Doctor degree (J.D) despite being blind and deaf.
Haben lost her vision and hearing from an undetermined progressive condition that began in early childhood.
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In her early life, she benefitted from civil rights which included Americans living with disabilities.
Luckily, she had access to technology such as a digital Braille device which aided her to read.
She graduated from Skyline High School in the US at age 17. Girma, in her autobiography, maintained that her disability was an opportunity for innovation.
She explained that she learned nonvisual techniques for everything, from dancing salsa to handling power tools.
Girma explained that her hearing translator, Arianne types what people say and do into a special computer that feeds the information into the Braille computer Haben holds.
Haben only needs to run her finger over the dots to read and then respond through speech.
She said, “My parents came to the United States seeking opportunities, and they found it’s not geography that creates freedom.”
“It’s people and communities that create freedom.”
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Humble lady bows down to brother who quit school so she could graduate
Meanwhile, a young lady pulled the attention of netizens after a video of her kneeling and bowing to her brother made headlines.
The 27-year-old lady paid her brother honor for his sacrifice of giving up his education for her.
In the video, she dressed her brother in her graduation regalia on her graduation day and went on her knees, and bowed to him.
