Spotlighting Excellence: the Transcendent Haben Girma
Posted: 07 Aug 2019, 16:13
We all bear difficulties in life; where some are able to hide our challenges through smiles and facades of normality, others are given abnormal adversities and wear their scars visibly. Such is the case with Haben Girma, who was born with impaired hearing and vision that only deteriorated as she grew older. In time, Haben became completely blind and deaf; deafblind as she prefers the term to embrace her “disability” as a cultural identity. Yet, in spite of the impediments she inherited, Haben refused to be limited by her circumstances.
Born to an Eritrean mother who was a refugee and an Ethiopian father, in 2013 Haben became the first deafblind person to graduate from Harvard University Law School. Instead of bemoaning her condition, she made it a point to keep striving for excellence and accomplish truly amazing feats. In a time where apathy and seeing the glass half-empty have become altogether too normal, Haben insists on pursuing possibilities. Sometimes the ones who can hear the blessings of life the loudest and see the abundance offered by this world with the most clarity are those who go without the faculty to do so.
Haben surfs, dances salsa regularly and has climbed glaciers, these are exploits few among us go after let alone someone who is deafblind. This is why Haben is a source of hope not only for people with disabilities but for humanity as a whole. It is easy to wallow in pity and...continued...
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Born to an Eritrean mother who was a refugee and an Ethiopian father, in 2013 Haben became the first deafblind person to graduate from Harvard University Law School. Instead of bemoaning her condition, she made it a point to keep striving for excellence and accomplish truly amazing feats. In a time where apathy and seeing the glass half-empty have become altogether too normal, Haben insists on pursuing possibilities. Sometimes the ones who can hear the blessings of life the loudest and see the abundance offered by this world with the most clarity are those who go without the faculty to do so.
Haben surfs, dances salsa regularly and has climbed glaciers, these are exploits few among us go after let alone someone who is deafblind. This is why Haben is a source of hope not only for people with disabilities but for humanity as a whole. It is easy to wallow in pity and...continued...
Read full article at: https://ethiopians4cm.org/spotlighting- ... ben-girma/