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"I was inspired to study after I found out that people with special needs like me can study, " Farhiya said.

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 Farhiya and I during the exam  It is not easy when you have special needs to study with people who do not have it!  I met Farhiya Mohamud Mohamed at Mogadishu University when I was taking an exam. It was the first time in my life that I have taken an exam with a visually impaired person. On the 1 st day of the exam, I thought that a special exam was prepared for her because she has special needs and is visually impaired, but I was surprised when I saw that the exam for all the students was also brought to her. The subject she was taking the exam on that day was statistics. I asked Farhiyo about the subject she is taking and whether she is ready for the exam! She replied, "I am ready, write me the answers I will tell you".She had a lot of confidence. Working on that subject took us a lot of time compared to other subjects because it involved a lot of operations and functions,  even including different graphs and figures for drawing. Farhia was very difficult becaus...