How does a visually impaired person adept to new circumstances without becoming dependent on others? Kristina Chetcuti finds out how NGO Advice helps these people reach self-sufficiency by incorporating new technology into their lives. Imagine waking up in the morning not being able to read the newspaper anymore. Imagine having breakfast and being unable to read what's on your cereal box. Imagine not being able to make a cup of tea to go with your cereal. Imagine getting into your car but knowing you cannot drive it anymore. This is the daily life of someone whose eyesight is ebbing away. Joe Cauchi, from Marsascala is 62. Seven years ago he suffered a stroke, which left him with a severe visual impairment, forcing him to give up even his teaching. "As an English language teacher, books were my life, my hobby, my work. All of a sudden, I could not even read the newspaper," he says. His new, sudden restrictions hit him on the day he had to stop driving. "That was one of the most difficult days of my life," he says. From then on he realised that, to be able to have some form of quality of life, as opposed to being constantly dependent on people, he needed to resort to...
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