Two young people sit in front of a purple and yellow painted wall. Duster Lucius, a 19-year-old DJP fellow from Malawi who is Deaf Blind, sits on the right side of the screen. He is wearing a white t-shirt with the logo of a Deaf Blind advocacy group, and is wearing black headphones. Chrissy Matumba, a Deaf Blind high school student, sits on the left side of the screen. She is wearing a white blazer over a purple shirt.
Matumba walks into a small classroom lined with wooden desks. She makes her way around a chair in the middle of the classroom, and walks towards a desk.
Black text on yellow screen reads: Matumba, 17, was recently accepted to complete her final year of high school at Blantyre Secondary School, in Blantyre, Malawi. She is the first Deaf Blind student to attend the school.
Black text on yellow screen reads: a 2020 survey conducted by the Visual Hearing Impairment Membership Association and the Malawi Council for the Handicapped estimated that 395 people in Malawi are Deaf Blind, including approximately 250 school-age children. Due to a lack of accommodations and resources in schools, many of these children are falling behind in their education.
Matumba sits at a desk in the classroom, loading a piece of white paper into a green Braille Machine.
A slow zoom on Matumba sitting at a desk with the Braille machine, using her left hand to read Braille on a paper on the desk.
Matumba adjusts the position of the paper in the Braille machine.
Two people sit in front of the yellow and purple wall. On the right is Lucius, and on the left is Ernest Sokasoka, head of the special needs department at Blantyre Secondary school. Sokasoka is wearing a white button up shirt with a dark striped tie, and black-framed eyeglasses.
Matumba sits down at a desk in the classroom, positions the Braille machine at the desk, and begins removing a piece of paper from the machine.
A close up of a piece of paper with the Braille alphabet.
Fade to black screen. Text on screen reads: Copyright 2022, Duster Lucius, all rights reserved.
Text on screen reads: Made with support from the DisabilityJustice Project and the Disability Rights Fund.