Sebastian Filoramo He is 12 years old, blind and wants, among other things, to fill the Qatar 2022 World Cup album.
The little one still lacks many stickers to complete it, but his task is very difficult because he has to adapt the album to Braille, the tactile reading and writing system for the blind devised by the French Louis Braille in the 19th century.
“Even the blind want to fill their Panini album from the Qatar 2022 World Cup”, Said the boy in a conversation with El Pitazo. Both in the note and in a video he uploaded to Instagram, Sebastián explained how he managed to fill the album using braille.
It was a joint effort between him, a teacher and his father.
On the one hand, they used transparent sticky paper to write the players’ names and numbers in braille on the stickers. Instead, in the frames of the album where the stickers go, they put lines of liquid silicone in relief so that Filoramo can guide himself in gluing them with his hands.
With the Perkins machine (special for writing in braille), the group marked the figures. All very carefully so as not to break them.
“I still have to score a lot of cards (stickers). Imagine, a box contains 104 envelopes, multiply it by five, it would be 520. And I have to adapt one by one to Braille”, expressed Sebastián.
Wearing the Argentina shirt, the boy said so The card that most excited him was that of Lionel Messi.
Among other requests to improve the quality of life of people with visual impairments, Sebastián suggested to Panini that they create an album adapted to Braille for the next World Cup that can be purchased in all countries.
more goals
“Make your dreams come true. Note that I ride a bicycle and do not see; i ride a skateboard and i don’t see; I’m learning to skateboard and I can’t see. And just like I can do all those things, so can you. Limits do not exist, you set the limits”, reflects Filoramo.
Sebastián has total visual impairment, the product of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) that was triggered when he was born, at seven months of gestation.
The child knows no bounds. His big goal for 2023 is to be the first blind man to cycle 100 kilometers.
Sebastián plans to tackle the project next year Venezuelan adventuretrying to move around the country for 100 kilometers on two wheels.
In one of his Instagram posts, Filoramo appears alongside Olympic BMX runner-up, the Venezuelan Daniel Derswith whom he shared a short circuit.
Others of his dreams have to do with becoming software developer create programs that can help people with visual impairments and with being singerprofession for which he has been preparing for a long time.
Source: Clarin
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