Everything around Anas is blurry and lacks details due to visual impairment. But life can change drastically, and this is what happened to him.
How was Anas’s life before the device?
Anas Awad, 12, suffers from severe visual impairment due to damage in his optical cells. His life lacks vivid colors and details, and his daily life chores get harder and harder, especially at school. He is in the 7th grade at Al Kastal school and he continuously needs his friends’ assistance because he can’t see what is written on the board clearly. The school instructor prints out daily his lessons in a bigger font, “This makes the process of learning much easier for him”, she says.
Anas's mother explains, “my son feels that he is different from his friends. His case is affecting his school grades and performance although he is a hardworking and smart student”.
What change do we bring to his life?
We offered Anas a special device designed to help people like him see better.
He is now more independent both at school and at home. He regained his self-confidence and self-esteem and is showing enthusiasm to study more and pursue his dreams. The first thing he did after receiving the life-changing device wrote a letter to express his gratitude and feelings of observing the world around him in colors and details.
Anas says, "I’m now as my friends can read easily in the classroom. this is life-changing. I will focus more on my studies to realize my dream of becoming an electronic engineer."
Anas is one of many who received assistive devices through Addressing the Urgent Needs for People with Disabilities in the Palestinian Camps in Lebanon, which is supported by the Lebanon Humanitarian Fund.
