This is Yamurayi Choruwa, 43, a father of four who was born partially blind. He is on the road to becoming a successful farmer, thanks in ...
This is Yamurayi Choruwa, 43, a father of four who was born
partially blind. He is on the road to becoming a successful farmer, thanks in
part to the training he got from the World Food Programme.
“You are so lucky that you are not blind — today is a
beautiful day and I cannot see it.” said Yamurayi, as he laughed off his own
comment and continued, “To be blind is not miserable, but not to be able to
bear blindness is miserable; and this is why I choose to be a farmer.”
Yamurayi said that the only thing worse than being blind,
is having sight but no vision
“To wake up and go to the fields every morning makes me see
the world, it makes me feel the happiness of my family and gives me the eyes to
see the same beautiful day you are seeing today,” Yamurayi said.
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| Yamurai and his wife in a sorghum field. Photo: WFP/Tatenda Macheka. |
“I use my sense of touch to do my weeding. I touch around
the plants and I can feel the difference between weeds and crops,” Yamurayi
said. To look at his sorghum field is to recognize the impact of his training.
“I have noticed that my sense of touch is quiet good, that if I touch something
today I won’t forget it, and I can tell that this is the same thing that I
touched some time ago.” Although Yamurayi admitted that that he often relies on
his wife for assistance with more complicated tasks.
This year, Yamurayi is expecting to have a surplus of more
than ten bags of sorghum, some of which he hopes to sell.
“You have seen it for yourself, I have a disability, I
cannot see, but I know an opportunity when I see one, and as long as I breathe,
my family will never go to bed on an empty stomach.”
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