Article June 24, 2002 Issue

Let me tell you about a school founder named John

By Lydia Laryea

I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU about a man by the name of John Edem Koko Ablordey, who lives in Aflao, Ghana, in the Volta Region near the border with Togo. He wasn't born blind, but he had an accident and became blind in both eyes.

I couldn't tell you how or when he found Christian Science, but he has been diligently studying the book Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy for a long time. He uses the Braille edition.

In the area of Ghana where he lives, if you are blind or are disabled, you are abandoned. You are thought to be something like an alien being, not a human being. Human beings are those who have all their faculties, but if they don't, then people believe there's something wrong with them. And what are you going to do with them? They become throw-aways.

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