{"id":5900,"date":"2019-08-22T12:43:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T12:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2019-08-22T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T12:43:52","slug":"visually-impaired-woman-breaks-barriers-builds-school-for-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/08\/22\/visually-impaired-woman-breaks-barriers-builds-school-for-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Visually Impaired Woman Breaks Barriers; Builds School For Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A visually impaired Senior State Attorney has braced all odds to build a 12- unit classroom block for the people of Kasoa-Domeabra in the Central Region.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn Appiah, 51, a teacher said on Adom FM\u2019s morning show \u2018Dwaso Nsem\u2019, Wednesday that the gesture was to give back to the community.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Larteh said she took loans to build the school which is at the ground floor.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of her challenges, she said a borehole she constructed in the school has been destroyed whilst a Polytank that serves as water for the school has been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a teacher by profession and instead of just sitting idle, I decided to build a school which is not in my community but in Kasoa. I chose that project because I am a teacher by profession and won\u2019t allow my talent to go waste,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that she trusts managers of the school which is currently at the primary level.<\/p>\n<p>She revealed how she did not allow her current impairment to discourage her from contributing positively to society by building a school in a farming community.<\/p>\n<p>The former student of the Akropong School for the Blind and then Presbyterian Training College appealed to authorities to help her with a bus for the school which provides all inclusive education.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn Appiah attended University of Ghana, Legon where she graduated with a Degree at the Faculty of Law. She was called to the bar in 2008 and has since been working at the Attorney General\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source: adomonline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visually impaired Senior State Attorney has braced all odds to build a 12- unit classroom block for the people of Kasoa-Domeabra in the Central Region. Evelyn Appiah, 51, a teacher said on Adom FM\u2019s morning show \u2018Dwaso Nsem\u2019, Wednesday that the gesture was to give back to the community. The native of Larteh said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[5078,5719,5593,423,4840,192,5750,10342,701,6565,6736,6059,6790,214,963,8869,5273],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-akropong-school-for-the-blind","tag-bus","tag-central-region","tag-education","tag-farming","tag-ghana","tag-kasoa","tag-law","tag-legon","tag-loans","tag-school","tag-student","tag-teacher","tag-university","tag-university-of-ghana","tag-water","tag-woman"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}