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[pulsing, ascendent synth music]

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You'll remember the saying,

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"Knowledge is power,"

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So 

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for us people who are blind,

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if we don't get the

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information, that means

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we don't understand the

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affairs of the world,

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and we tend

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to left behind

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from our society.

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One of the articles in the CRPD

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is access to information.

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So we have all the rights

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to have access to

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to information, accessibility as well.

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Not only we have access to

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information, but

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information needs to be

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in accessible formats.

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I remember my time when I was at

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school. We rely on friends

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to dictate our notes

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and we gave

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the handouts

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to our association so that

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they can translate

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into Braille.

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And it took a lot

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of time, probably one week

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or so, and

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our work

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was quite behind.

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Compared to

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students who are

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without visual impairments.

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[indistinct chatter]

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I commenced working here

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in 2019.

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The Braille unit was already

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here and

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the first

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Braille documents was

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the, uh,

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the Office of the Electoral

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Commission Bill 2018

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was in place and already translated

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in Braille.

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The first project

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that we have since I was on board

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was the VNR Review 
[of the UN Sustainable Development Goals],

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the second voluntary

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national review that was led

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by the UNDP [United Nations 
Development Program]

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We have four restaurants.

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Restaurant menus.

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That's already for

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a Braille translation.

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So, um,

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I think most of the

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persons who are blind have

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witnessed that ...

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one of the milestone.

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[mouse and keyboard clicks]

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[beeping]

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[printer clacking]

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[printer clacking]

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[beeping]

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[plastic rustling]

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Recently we've launched the

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Disaster Risk Management

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booklet from the Disaster Management

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Office, which is now translated

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into Braille.

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We translated 100

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Samoan, 100 English.

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The goal is to distribute these

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booklets out to the community so

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that the blind community

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will aware of

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what to do and how to

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respond with

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various disasters, like

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how to respond when an

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earthquake occurs or

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maybe a cyclone.

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So we know

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things step by step on how to

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respond to a disaster

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so that we do not rely on our

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families to to tell us what to do

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because, you know, we might

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have some miscommunications, but

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now with the Braille unit 

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we are able for ourselves to

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to read and to learn

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on how to to cope with

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disasters,

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and we learned the importance of

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climate change and what to do to

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mitigate the risk of climate change.

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Well, this is the heart of 

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our work, because this is where

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we translate information into 

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Braille, which is our language

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or the language of the blind we can read.

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[music fades]