Fernando’s work in social services has helped people across multiple continents. With the Holman Prize, he would teach blind people how to build accessible, low cost computers.
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Alieu Jaiteh, The Gambia
Alieu is the founder of Start Now, a training program for blind people in The Gambia. With the Holman Prize, he would provide eighty blind people with rehabilitation training in rural Gambia.
Amanda Lacy
Amanda, a computer programmer, would use the Holman Prize to expand a software program called the Muddy Map Explorer, which provides interactive, text-based geographic data for blind and low-vision users to facilitate their own travels.
Dr. Sakui Malakpa
Sakui, a university professor originally from Liberia, would use the Holman Prize to purchase laptops and other training tools for blind and low-vision communities in Liberia and Sierra Leone.