Let's Make A difference Today
Switzerland based philanthropist Jeffries Queye, in 2018, after haven realized the potency of the adage that says "
disability means not inability" grabbed the bull by the horn and founded the MEB foundation which focus its charitable giving on advancing economic programmes for the blind and visually impared musicians in Ghana.
Meb foundation is a registered and recognized non-profitable organization based in Ghana. The foundation mission is to use music as a tool to educate, entertain, empower, and inform people in Ghana and around Africa continent.
Through a variety of sensational tunes, we enrich societies with an interculture understanding of extraordinary people learning to play instruments, thus transmitting a message for the need of inclusion in the world of workplaces for blind and visually impared musicians.
Our vision is one where we percieve blind and visually impared individuals as musicians and teachers not as beggars or burden to society. We believe providing the rhythm and melody enables us to march together toward changing public opinions about Blindness and visual impairment.
To perceive blind and visually impaired individuals as musicians, teachers and contributors to the national developments and not as beggars or a burden to society.
We believe providing the societal developmental-rhythmic-melody will enable us to march together towards changing public opinions about blindness or visual impairment.
Using music as a tool to educate, entertain, empower, and inform the Ghanaian and African populace and enrich societies with an intercultural understanding of extraordinary people mastering musical instruments.
This is a message to the work places across the world to recognize inborn talent of the visually impaired
Societies in underdeveloped continents such as Africa and Asia see disabilities as a curse inflicted on the individual. We subconsciously commit these beliefs and attitudes about blind people not to daunt them, but this subconscious behaviour eventually leads to denying them opportunities to participate in fundamental social-economic activities.
Imagine you were blind either from birth or by illness or accident and you have the opportunity to see again, will you fight for it ? This is what is propelling us to help create a better future for the blind who are either school drop outs, completed school but have nothing to offer society, and those who have become beggars on the Ghanaian streets – Philanthropist Jeffries Quaye – Switzerland
Societies in most underdeveloped continents such as Africa and Asia look at disabilities as curses inflicted upon the individual for their sins.
We subconsciously commit these beliefs and attitudes about blind people not to daunt them, but this subconscious behaviour eventually leads to denying them opportunities to participate in fundamental social-economic activities, like in education or the job market.
Nobody knows when a blind child truly understands what blindness is. Blindness is something we explain little by little as a child progresses toward school. We should share what we experience with blind children as a normal state and an enjoyable part of communication in our communities, not as a constant melancholy reminder of something a child is lacking.
Getting over our grief and frustration about blindness and visual impairment as early as possible and having a committed peer support group that creates value can bring wonders to every society and workforce in Ghana and around the African continent.
Together, we must continue to champion for anything associated with blindness and visual impairment to be approached and discussed positive due to the individuals varying degrees of achieved success.
