Sara Minkara Biography

Empowerment Through Integration (ETI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the inclusion and development of young people with visual impairment in the Middle East and North Africa, was founded by Sara Minkara, and she currently serves as its president. Sara herself is an American-Lebanese blind person who went blind at the age of seven. She started ETI to provide blind children with the tools they needed to make a difference in their communities. She is a well-known champion for social entrepreneurship and disability inclusion on a global scale. When an undergraduate at Wellesley College and throughout her tenure at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, she became passionate about disability rights and youth empowerment. Since starting ETI, Sara has continued her work in the social sector and expanded the organization from a summer camp to one that now serves over 3,000 people in Lebanon and the US. Being up in the United States, Minkara had access to a safety net of assistance for her impairment through public and private organizations after becoming legally blind at age 7. However, when Minkara visited her relatives in Lebanon, she discovered that blind children in other underdeveloped nations did not have the same benefits. Empowerment Through Integration works with blind kids in Lebanon to boost their self-esteem by teaching them practical skills like using a computer and walking with a white cane. For kids who are both blind and sighted, ETI also organizes a summer camp.

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