Above:
Kevin Carey uses a Braille computer for writing. His new novel Perpetua is out now.
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Kevin Carey at home with his vast collection of manuscripts, pictures and artefacts.
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a job at the BBC, Kevin accepted a scholarship to Harvard University, Massachusetts. “Despite editing the student newspaper at Cambridge, when I applied to the BBC for a journalism position I got turned down because I was blind,” Kevin says without a hint of anger or self-pity.
It is saddening to hear of the extra battles Kevin, and others facing the same challenges, have had to face in the past due to discrimination and lack of equality. Yet Kevin does not appear resentful, he merely uses his experiences to make life easier and more accessible to others facing the same diffi culties. After working in radio in America, he landed a job at the BBC, planning to work his way into politics through journalism. Tragically, in 1975, the great recession hit, meaning that Kevin was made redundant and his life plans collapsed. “It was a great disaster. I lost my dream job and I lost what was left of my vision,” Kevin says absent of any bitterness. He treats all that he has gained in life as far outweighing what he has lost.
Kevin was soon headhunted by Sight Savers International, a charity which works to combat blindness in developing countries. With its main base in Haywards Heath, Kevin worked for the charity for 15 years, heading projects in the Caribbean, East Africa and South Asia before becoming Sight Savers’ Overseas Director. “As a young lad in my twenties,
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