Disabled woman finds her true calling
Nguyen Huong Duong lost both her legs when she was 25 but overcame utter despair to help the many blind people in Viet Nam read. Thuy Ha reportsI did not expect a woman who had lost both her legs in the prime of her youth to be so positive.
Duong looks younger than her 40 years, the bright red lipstick and big smile light up her face, and her eyes radiate happiness.
"I feel happy because I am doing a meaningful thing," she says, explaining proudly that she acts as eyes for people with visual impairment.
The happiness is apparent in her warm and emotive voice with which she has been recording audio books for blind people for the last 13 years.
She got the idea of making audio books from a blind friend who taught himself English through lessons on radio and got a scholarship to study in the US.
"Why are there no audio-book libraries in Viet Nam?" Duong asked her blind friend who told her about such libraries in the US and Thailand.
The friend, who died recently of cancer, told Duong no one in Viet Nam wanted to do that for blind people and asked her to do it.
"It is like a destiny for me." She thinks she owes blind people something.
In 1998, two years after her accident, Duong began to record books, mostly for children, sent to the Nguyen Dinh Chieu Special School for visually impaired and blind children using a cassette recorder and tapes.
A year later she founded an audio-book library for the blind.
It now has textbooks for students from grades 1 to 12, books on literature and general knowledge, and biographies of famous people.
People with visual impairment can get all the books at www.sachnoi online.com. The website's simple and convenient design allows them to listen directly or download things they need.
Duong lost her legs in an accident in 1996 when she was 25.
"I was passing by the tracks near my house when I stumbled and fell.
"When I woke up, I was so shocked to see the lower portion of my legs cut off," she says, showing prosthetic legs joined at her knees.
After the accident, Duong did not want to live any more, since she would be of no use without her legs and also be a burden on her parents.
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