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Muscatine, Journal July 29, 1981 Ceylon Educator, Pakistan Doctor, Both Blind, Visit Blairsburg Farm clambered into the back; of; a pickup truck for a ride to Hem ken's cornfields. Learn 'Jccl' Of Com There he and Dr. Shah learned the smell and heat of van Iowa cornfield, stalks are some seven' feet, high this time of year. Dr. Shah brought back, an ear bf corn, to show to one of some ,20 blind students who accompanied the foreign visitors' to Blairsburg.

what I have," she said. "Fatima," came the reply, "you've been raiding the corn take it back fry. it. You Americans must expand your ex; perierice. It is delicious that THc process described, by Dr.

Shah is similar lo the American method oi roasting corn, except that she explained, season, their corn with lime juice rather than butler. Dr. Shah pitched in to crank for a while, when the. group decided to make homemade ice only "first" for Shah and Rienzi Iowa. 'They and other foreign visitors to the Iowa Commission for the Blind also went water skiing.

They have bwn. 'introduced to the long; steel tipped cane which the. blind country rely 'upon, and have encountered a Braille calculating machine and a chess board specially designed for the Most important, in their opinion, gah, commission director. "Thel attitude, and that of "Blind children need equal op By PAT CUKRAN BLAIRSBURG an An educator from Ceylon and a doctor from Pakistan have had their first look at an Iowa farm. But they didn't use their eyes.

The visitors, Dr. Fatima Shah of Karachi, Pakistan, and Rienzi Alagij awanna. of Mahawewa, are blind, Both are leaders in movements for the blind in their countries. They visited the Iowa Commission for the Blind before traveling to New York for a meeting of the World Federation for the Blind. Host Was Blind Too! Their farm host, Elwyn Hem ken, was uniquely qualified to show visitors around his 80 acres' two and a.

half miles south of Blairsburg, He too is blind. Rienzi he. goes by first name while in Iowa because Americans, find his "last name virtually unpronounceable, fascinated with technical aspects of farm in America. "Do the pigs fight?" he asked; "How much a 100 pound pig worth? How do you get them to market? How much is this corn worth? How do you get it planted?" Feeling his way with the long cane which is second nature to the blind in America, but virtually unknown in foreign countries, Rienzi poked and prodded real, problem blindness is not other personnel at the Iowa Lorn portunity for higher study, arid jobs," she said. "In, my.

country, it is an upward task." Rienzi was a school principal when he found he was going blind, about a dozen years ago. "I was caught in the philosophy of the country," he said. "I thought I could do nothing after I became blind." Instead, he has opened five, schools for the blind in' Ceylon, and is principal of Siviraja School for the Deaf and Blind' in Mahawewa. He plans to introduce in Ceylon, the cane he has learned to use here, and says he will call it the Iowa He pronounces it Eye oh' ah. blindness itself.

It's, the! attitude toward. it. on the part of the blind and. the sighted." "Yes," chimed in Rienzi, "We have to protect the blind from the blindness of other people." method'1 of instilling confidence in the blind' is to expose them to: the successful blind water ski, charcoal a steak' on an outdoor grill, travel unaided and generally get about with" little more apparent difficulty than the sighted: "Whit we do here," said Jcrni gaii: of newly blind person. "i to let him come to the realization mission for the.Blind, have made the 'commission known around the world.

Both Dr. Shah and Rienzi said they learned about Iowa's program for the blind in their' own countries. They hope to. incorporate some of, what they have learned here into programs for blind in Pakistan and Ceylon. A medical doctor who became blind just seven years ago, Dr.

Shah' is president and founder of' the Pakistan Association, of the Blind. She says she hopes to open; a school similar to Iowa's center for blind students in her own country. Rienzi told of the difficulties they have been to We of farming in Ceylon, where elc I philosophy which the phants are used in farming. "Tliey Iowa Commission for the Blind, need one big heap of limbs and Altitude Important branches to eat every dav." he "Most people think' the field "I didn't take it. I didn't," Dr.

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