{"id":309076,"date":"2021-04-07T11:58:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T06:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=309076"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T07:09:53","slug":"meet-pakistans-first-visually-impaired-student-to-win-a-scholarship-to-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/meet-pakistans-first-visually-impaired-student-to-win-a-scholarship-to-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Pakistan’s First Visually Impaired Student To Win a Scholarship to Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"

A visually impaired Pakistani girl has been awarded Oxford University’s Rhodes Scholarship. Khansa Maria has a disability but that didn’t stop her from heading to Oxford University next fall as Pakistan’s first visually impaired Rhodes Scholar-elect.<\/p>\n

Growing up visually impaired in Pakistan comes with many challenges. Now she wants to give back to her community. With a master\u2019s degree in evidence-based policy intervention and social evaluation, she will hopefully pave the way for others. She is set to attend Oxford University in Fall 2021.<\/p>\n

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Pakistan’s first visually impaired Rhodes-scholar elect<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Voice Of America<\/a> reports that this young woman advocated for the exclusivity of the disabled. This includes awareness of inclusion from attitudes within a group of friends to designing spaces for people with disabilities. She said she believes people should be better informed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do have a disability, I am blind, and I firsthand experienced the impacts of not having an inclusive society, … I do have a certain responsibility to my community to improve things to the extent that I can or at least lend my skills or my experience to the benefit of future blind people from Pakistan,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maria believes that conversations and language about the disabled should be more inclusive.<\/p>\n

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