Meet Haben Girma The First Deaf-Blind Graduate At Harvard Law School

Haben Girma  and Barack Obama

Eritrean-American Haben Girma, who is the first deaf-blind graduate at Harvard Law School’s story is a true inspiration. She met President of The United State, Barack Obama an alumni of the institution.

In a speech she delivered at the White House, Girma shared some of her family’s story. In Eritrea, when Girma’s grandmother took her older brother to school, they told her that deaf-blind children could not be educated. It was impossible.

At 16-years-old, in the midst of Eritrea’s 30-year-war, in their fight for independence from Ethiopia, Girma’s mother walked three weeks, through Eritrea’s deserts until a refugee organization helped her immigrate to the United States.

More pictures after the cut and her TEDx Talk. BE INSPIRED!!