25-year-old vision impaired Ekesi Victoria, a student of National Open University is working beyond all odds to better her future by learning how to make soap, but her only challenge is lack of sponsorship. Victoria needs N500, 000 to remain in school.She is currently a 300 level student of Open University of Nigeria, Mushin study centre, where she is studying Peace Study and Conflict Resolution, which she said, tuition fee cost about N150, 000 yearly. I was later taken to my aunty, who became my guardian. In 2010, I went to Nigeria Farm Craft School for the blind, Isheri Olofin Lagos. “In 2003, I lost my sight at age 9 as a result of measles, an airborne disease that spread easily through the cough and sneezes of infected persons.

Source: The Guardian February 01, 2019 03:45 UTC