I may be blind but I’m the light that helps others see
Angela Nzilani, a visually impaired community health volunteer speaks on her experiences working as a blind volunteer during an interview with the Nation at her home in Kibera on October 2, 2020.
Photo credit: Francis Nderitu | Nation Media Group
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What you need to know:
As a volunteer healthcare worker, Angela helps reduce health disparities in her underserved community by providing culturally appropriate health education, advocating for underserved individuals to receive proper health services, and providing informal counselling, health screenings, and referrals.
Angela continues to spread hope and information in her community to enable them to keep safe and sane in a pandemic whose end is unknown.
Angela Nzilani’s first instinct when she heard about the first case of Covid-19 in Kenya in March 2020 was to lock herself up in the house and never come out until the virus was wiped out.
