By VALENTINE OFORO
IN LIFE, sucess is always banked on high determinations, focused vision and hard working, these should always remain the basic prerequisite.
Despite his eye- sight impairment, Raphael Mwambalaswa, the PHD student in Educational Psychology at the Dar es Salaam-based University (UDSM) has affiliated at the Vocational and Training Authority (VETA) college with an eye to study aluminium corse.
Among others, the vision and mission of this young Tanzanian with seeing impairment is to prove to the world that being a blind has nothing to transform a person into a begger, or dependent.
The course he undertaking, aluminium, involve use of diverse hand-working motor machines, but he is effectively managing to operate them despite his totally blindness.
"My hands are my eyes, I am using the machines through sense and I have never find it difficult to operate them," he said.
And he told this publication that, as part of his PHD's field studies, internship, he has opted to undertake the course, aluminium, so as to acquire tangible lessons.
"To be honest, I am seriously being irked with the poor manner to which majority of persons with eye sight impairment, and others with different forms of disabilities are remaining in closed - doors, and others begging along the streets due to fallacy of reasoning that they cannot perform anything useful for enabling them standinding on their won economic shadows," he expressed.
After completing his Vocational studies, he said, the future focus is to sensitize and help others (with blindness) to start engaging themselves into different economic sectors.
" I am doing this with a good and patriotic hert to open a fresh door to others with different physical handicaps to deter from dependent life and start taping various economic opportunities," he informed.
He urged the government to install and improving friendly infrastructures to enable the students with special needs at numerous learning facilities to aquire vital education in order to take large share in the country's economic sector.
His mentor, Saleh Omary, a trainer of aluminium course at VETA, expressed to have been amazed with his (Mwambalaswa) quick learning manner.
"He's studying and understanding things very quickly, just like others with active eyes;" he said.
He said Mwambalaswa is practically proving that the physical challenged persons have capacity and enough room to learn different useful vocational subjects to enable them earning a comfortable income to develop and handle their living.
"Doors are wide open for others to come and persue vocational trainings at VETA, the government has so far set good system and infrastructure for them to study effectively, just like others," he encouraged.
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