Episode Description
Before our featured interview, we share a couple of announcements from Dot.
1. There is an update to the free Dot Book reading app designed to be used with Dot Pad. Now available for iPhone and iPad, Dot Book now includes the ability to render up to 10 lines of braille improving fluency and context. You can download Dot Book from the App Store.
2. On April 27th 2026 Dot will host a webinar to demonstrate support coming to the BrailleSense notetaker for Dot Pad. We hope you can join us.
3. During the final week of May 2026 Dot will be exhibiting at Sight City in Germany. We hope you can meet us there.
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In this episode, we hear a powerful and moving story of braille education from North Africa.
Samira Mohamed Lamin was born in 1995 in Smara, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria.
At the age of 6, she traveled to Spain for the first time to receive treatment for glaucoma. From then on, she continued traveling to Spain and undergoing treatments and surgeries to slow the progression of the disease.
At the age of 17, she became blind due to complications in accessing the necessary treatment in the refugee camps.
At that age, she returned to Barcelona, Spain, where she spent three years learning Braille, mobility and orientation techniques, and daily living skills at the Spanish National Organisation of the Blind (ONCE).
At the age of 20, she returned to the refugee camps, and in 2024 she decided to create the Himma Association to raise awareness among the Sahrawi society about the importance of education and autonomy for people with disabilities in the camps. She also volunteers at a school in Smara, teaching Braille and tactile literacy to blind children.
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