 60-year-old Pateli school for the blind is seeking the intervention of the government and well-meaning Nigerians to be able to continue with its free education program for the visually impaired. Plus TV Africa visited the school in Surileira area of Lagos to interact with the world of the visually challenged, yet intelligent children. Plus TV Africa's correspondent, Destiny Momo reports. Life for the visually impaired is better imagined than experienced, as it takes a lot to live in this class of disability conveniently. Most touching is hearing that some of them were not born this way. I know that that day I wanted to do my exam at Snaya's Wood. So I was not feeling headache from that place, Shia. I cannot see again. When I was two years old, one morning I woke up, so I just stopped to go to school. I was in KG1. So that morning, I don't know, I just went to lie down on my bed after I'm done with dressing up. I was having a cataclysm. Then my mother went to the health center to ask for drugs, to buy drugs for my cataclysm. And they gave me a septrine. So the first day I first took the septrine, I was having itch rashes on my body. Like not actually itch rashes, just some rashes. So the next day, my mother went there again and they gave me another antibiotic. The next day, that same day, I now started having blisters on my body then, as I started and the thing went all over my body and all my skin was burnt. Pacheli School for the Blind and Partially Sighted, an initiative of the then-Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Leo Halle, was officially opened on the 16th of June, 1962 and named after the then-Saving Pope, Pius VII Eugenio Pacheli. Learning without their sight is obviously a challenge. The challenges we face is just some kind of things you can't do on the computer. Life programming is hard for visually impaired to learn programming on computer. For the same to enter my head sometimes, I mean, I don't understand, I have to ask the teacher to recap again, but I didn't hear, I used to get this, but it's not easy. Teaching visually impaired is not like teaching the normal child. The normal child, as you are teaching, they can see what you are talking about, but for the visually impaired, they just, they cannot, some have never ever seen anything before. So you just have to as much as possible bring home what you are talking about to the child. Moments in the classroom and labs are unique as they express themselves. We captured this scenario of a deaf and dumb father in a conversation with his visually impaired daughter. It's a touching moment as we speak with him. He said he wants scholarship for me just to finish my school. I want to go to Queen's College. Jane O'Yenery is the principal of the school. She has a simple message to the government and well-meaning individuals. The government was in charge of this school before, eventually, the Catholic Church took over their school and we pleaded with them to give us annual convention, they refused. And some government governors, when they come, they can assist us as they can. Like Amber, they give us a coaster bus and the big money was budgeted for the physically challenged people in Lagos, but that was our own share. So the only time they give us, if there is celebration, we write that we need something they give us. They are yet to step up to assist these children that are in Pachelis school that do not pay any form of tuition. People we are appealing to government decide their own children that the Catholic Church has decided to assist. They need to also help us because every month we pay 1.5 million for our staff. If they come to assist us, we'll be very, very grateful. By June 16, 2022, Pachelis School for the Blind will be 60. The principal is happy that products of the school are widely integrating successfully into public and private institutions. Best in the moment for Plus TV Africa.