Community & Heritage
Alieu Jaiteh
Blindness advocate and social entrepreneur
A Gambian legacyAlieu Jaiteh is a Gambian disability advocate and founder of Start Now Gambia. His work supports blind people through training and challenges assumptions about what they can achieve. In 2019, he received the Holman Prize for Blind Ambition, with a project designed to extend practical rehabilitation training to blind people in rural Gambia.
THEIR MARK ON HISTORY
01Founded the blindness-advocacy organisation Start Now Gambia.
02Received the Holman Prize for Blind Ambition in 2019.
SOURCES & FURTHER READING01LightHouse for the Blind: 2019 award profile02LightHouse Annual Report 2019
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