USHER SYNDROME AND DEAF-BLINDNESS
INTERNATIONAL USHER SYNDROME AWARENESS DAY RALLY 2021 ABUJA, NIGERIA. Making a Significant Change in Africa . Innocent Aniekan the Founder of AFRICAN COMMUNITY CHANGER ORGANIZATION (ACC) Joined the Organisers LionHeart Ability Leaders International Foundation (LALIF) in Conjunction with National Commission For Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) Awareness Rally to Stop Usher Syndrome and also to build a future for individuals with Deaf-blindness in Abuja, Nigeria. THEME: OPERATION STOP USHER SYNDROME: Usher Syndrome is a rare genetic disorder caused by a gene mutation. This problems results in a combination of hearing and visual impairment, and is the leading cause of combined deafness and blindness (Deaf-blindness) in individuals worldwide. Several of the affected individuals end up with total blindness alongside varying degrees of hearing loss or total deafness. Usher Syndrome spread easily because of mass ignorance and a severe lack of genetic testing and counseling facilities