Martin Imbalambala: Fred Arocho Came To My Rescue
Former AFC Leopards captain Martin Imbalambala narrates how veteran sports journalist Fred Arocho helped him when he went blind in 2018.
In an Exclusive interview with Mideyah Digital Media, Imbalambala narrated how Arocho and Sam Weru former Director for Kenya Society for the Blind (KSB) helped him go to school in a school for the Blind located in Nairobi West.
In the Institution, he studied Braille, walking using white cane, orientation and mobility.
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“When I enter a room, after two hours I’m able to tell how that room looks like, we are taught how to eat as well as when you get served food by someone who doesn’t know you’re blind and what you should do to eat that food.
“We were also taught how to walk with white cane that detects obstacles that are immediately in front of you, then also using phone because I can call or message someone as well as operating a computer by the help of a device installed on phone known as Talkback and Job Access With Speech (JAWS) software in computers.”
After attempting to avoid the Radio Personality, Imbalambala says Arocho invited him to studio where they insisted he goes to school, but the main obstacle was raising the school fee for him to go and study since the it amounted to Ksh. 210,000.
“When I went to the studio, there’s this woman, I always say may God bless her so much, she called live on air and said she’ll pay the total fee amount plus the accommodation fee for me.”
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Imbalambala confirmed that it was through Arocho that he was able to go to school and study Braille and all related stuffs for the blind people.
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