Watching Evelyne Nzioki give a massage therapy to a client, you would not tell she is visually impaired. She has been doing this for a living for six years in Machakos town. Nzioki learnt Japanese massage techniques in a two-year course at Machakos Technical Training Institute for the Blind. The institute marketed itself by demonstrating the trainees’ skills to hotels and resorts in Mombasa and Diani. In 2016 Jica took its volunteer trainers to Sirki Technical Training Institute in Kisumu, leaving the Machakos facility with no trainers.

Source: The Star March 01, 2019 20:48 UTC