Ransford Acheampong Yeboah, a-nine-year-old visually impaired says his determination to make his dream of becoming a legal practitioner is to advocate the rights and privileges of the visually impaired to live a more dignified life. 

Yeboah and his two other siblings, Sandra Aniniwaa, 25 years and Gloria Pomaa, 18 years were not born blind, but lost their sight as they were growing. 

After years of staying indoors and social exclusion, Yeboah and Pomaa had successfully gained admission to the Blind Unit of the Bechem School for Deaf. 

"My dream is to become a lawyer to enable me to fight for the rights of the blind" Yeboah who was officially admitted to the school on Wednesday June 19, 2024, and carried some smiles on his face told Sompa FM in Sunyani in an interview. 

His elder sibling, Pomaa had also been admitted to the school. 

Their admission followed the intervention of WENSAH International Foundation, a Sunyani-based Non-Governmental Organisation working to improve the lives of the vulnerable in society. 

Touched by their predicament, the NGO bought the prospectus and other educational needs of the siblings, Yeboah and Pomaa, and sent them to the school. 

Meanwhile, authorities at the Bechem School for the Deaf have called for support towards the renovation of the school. 

In an interview with Sompa FM in Sunyani, Mr Alfred Brobbey Frimpong, the Vice in-charge of Domestic, and the school's Audiologist said the school was established in 1969 and had seen no major renovation since then. 

He said the seven dormitories for the inmates were in a bad shape, with most of the roofing leaking, saying because of inadequate beds, most of the 400 inmates slept on the floor. 

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