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German journalists train blind students in North Sumatra
Both Hanna and Franzi have shared their experience and knowledge with around 67 students at the school, whose levels range from kindergarten to high school.
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Franzi Becker (second left) and Hanna Lesch (third left), two German journalists are teaching broadcasting to blind students in Tanjung Morawa, Deliserdang, North Sumatra. (JP/Nurni Sulaiman)
Ten students attended a broadcast journalism class at a school in Tanjung Morawa, Deliserdang regency in North Sumatra one morning in October.
It was not an ordinary school. It was a school for the blind run by the Blind Education Foundation (Yapentra). To make it more special, the teachers were two visiting journalists from Germany, Hanna Lesch and Franzi Becker.
They have taught at the school since September. The program, which will run until the end of this year, is part of an empowerment program for the blind and an effort to develop a community radio station in the regency.
