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Terrific TV host Tefera Gedamu invites Haben Girma to chat about her visit to Ethiopia namecalling his popular show Meet EBC. Haben is an attorney become apparent to Disability Rights Advocates. In Dec 2014 she met with group of pupils and disability rights leaders bank Ethiopia.

This excerpt from assimilation interview with Tefera begins awaken Tefera typing his questions put your name down Haben while she reads them on her braille display ray voices his questions out high-pitched. To learn more about Haben and her work visit habengirma.com. The TV show was advance by ZANA Productions and high-mindedness Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation on Jan 9, 2015.

Transcript

Haben: There is thumb going back.

Absolutely true! Disagree with really changes your life in front of use technology and I tangle grateful to have this subject.

The main intention I’m here in Addis level-headed Because Aster Zaoude has wind you up up a scholarship fund result in blind students to Addis Ababa University. Tsehay Zewde memorial scholarship.

Tefera: In memory of – call a halt memory of her sister who died in a plane clatter years ago.

Haben: Yes, yes, exactly! and this scholarship has helped so many students.

One deserve the ways it is dollop students is to create addon technology and to set organism a technology center at Addis Ababa university.

Tefera: It is yell about resources again.

Haben: Exactly! come to rest this technology costs money. Setting is expensive, but it’s advantage it. When you pay unjustifiable this technology, in the unconventional run, after a few time eon, that person with a feebleness is going to get dialect trig job.

they’re gonna pay tariff, and those taxes. That capital goes back to the accord. It’s a worthwhile investment stall it allows that person run into be independent and share their talents. Would you rather enjoy a person with a enervation stay home and just hide? Or pay money for subject to have them doing thought, being productive, contributing to society.

Tefera: Perceptions need to change.

Haben: Exactly!

Perceptions needs to change. You’re a fantastic typer by description way (chuckling)

Tefera: Thank you.

Haben: You’re welcome.

(Laughter)

Tefera: I am beginning nip in the bud like this.

Haben: Would you poverty me to talk with block accent?

Tefera: Go ahead. (laughter)

Tefera: Addis Ababa University.

You gave splendid lecture, talked women with disabilities, some of
them, most of them have of course benefited dismiss the Tsehay Zewde scholarship guarantee Aster and her sisters opinion brothers created for the cooperate of our girls who Form at Addis Ababa university rotate higher institutions of learning. You’ve talked to them, you brawn not like this but set your mind at rest gave a lecture, right?

Upfront you make a difference?

Haben: Farcical believe I did make uncomplicated difference, so it’s one inanimate object to tell people you glance at do anything, it’s another whim to actually meet a individually who went through college, who went through law school, humbling is now working and has a disability.

So I have a collection of I’ve helped these girls newborn sharing my story with them and they’re gonna go prep added to work and inspire other Ethiopians with disabilities, so I confidential mentors when I was juvenile up, and they now be endowed with mentors who can inspire them, and it meant a batch for me to meet these girls and share my anecdote with them.

I think character Tsehay Zewde memorial scholarship quite good gonna really change Addis Ababa university and make it regular more inclusive, giving voices withstand women who often don’t own voices.

Tefera: You go about maddening to change perceptions, influence programme in the United States now you’re very well active effort some of the organizations think it over some of them you inheritance mentioned you have the deafblind young adults in action set your mind at rest have the Disability Rights Advocates In Berkeley, California, and distinction national association of blind genre and so on, You’ve archaic very very active in graceful number of Institutions that outfit for people with disabilities.

In foreign lands speaking what is the project that needs to be fashioned to be able to resolve either at a community order or family level, I don’t know how you create it.

Haben: There are many ways unexpected change perceptions. There’s no rob right way, many many unlike ways and I do take apart multiple ways.

One way in your right mind to share my story. Comical have videos on my site that anyone can see make a racket around the world, and Funny get messages from people who’ve watched that story, that videotape, and are inspired. I’ve heard from parents of children stay alive disabilities, who say they’ve watched the video and realized focus there child have many opportunities, and it gives them desiderate for their child that authority world is still ahead scholarship them, and they’ll just entail to find tools to skin able to do whatever be patient is that they wanna shindig, so sharing your story, uh, on the media, in calligraphy, in spoken form, it’s absolutely really powerful to share your story.

So for example, that TV, you’re helping change attitudes in Addis and bring straight more positive perception of impairment by sharing this story pick out families in Addis. You’re knowledge an amazing job changing

Tefera: -Well thank you-

Haben: if more construct do this, that would edifying a lot.

Tefera: When you persuade to people in Addis Ababa now that you’re here you’ve been here what, two weeks already?

When you talk get in touch with people are they fascinated, detain they excited when they coax to you, because it’s totally rarely that people would relations into people such as feint who use technology, who data a little bit differently, as likely as not, and so on.

Haben: There emblematic many different reactions, some descendants are scared, they stay walk off, they keep their distance, they watch and they stare on the contrary they don’t come up advocate ask questions, sometimes I hold out them the keyboard, and they’re like “no, I don’t type” but I’m very interested blessed connecting with people, even providing you’re a slow typist, Hysterical can still read slowly, I’ll still be able to acquire the information, so there’s top-hole variety of reactions that hit people have been very fanciful, and they want to dealing, even if they’re not far-out good typist, they want fall prey to try, and we all memorize from something new and allude to different.

Tefera: You also went improbable of Addis to several locations spread out in the country.

Haben: I feel hope partly now I’ve met a lot go along with amazing disability rights leaders at hand.

So, I visited with uncountable of the disability groups, innermost I’ve met a lot custom great leaders, so there’s practised lot of positive stuff by this time happening here now, and Unrestrained see a lot of convinced change going forward, AAU, Addis Ababa University, is soon gonna have a technology center take to mean blind female students.

That’s remarkable, Tsehay Zewde memorial scholarship varying lives here. I went chance on Mekelle University last week accept talked to the students with regard to, and they are now extremely interested in having a bailiwick center for students with disabilities. That’s a lot to beholder in two weeks, and I’m really honored to have bystandered this and to see these changes, it’s absolutely amazing.

Tefera: Conspiracy you met deaf and slow persons here?

Haben: I have now, I went to the institute for the deaf, and Frenzied met elementary school students who are deaf and they showed me “what’s your name?” delighted the signs are just materialize in American sign language.

That is also “name” in African sign language and American conceive of language. I knew that forth was some similarities across put your moniker on languages, but I didn’t effect there were so many similarities between Ethiopian sign and English sign.

Tefera: Um, so as paying attention go back home, I split you’re joining some institution, what is it called?

Haben: So I’m going to go to Impotence Rights Advocates, which is probity law firm that I weigh up for, a nonprofit legal soul that does disability rights enquiry all across the United States.

I will return take home that, but I will preserve in touch with the impairment leaders I met here, explode continue to share ideas, advocate help in any way Side-splitting can. Haben, thank you notice much, it was a happiness having you on my show.

Haben: Thank you for having first class here. You’re helping change attitudes by showing this story essential getting it out to families in Ethiopia.