Blind best candidate Imun Rome

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 20 - Emilia Fares is one of the best delegates of the ninth IMUN Rome edition, the largest UN organized simulation in Italy. Emilia, who will now go to New York thanks to a scholarship, is blind, studies at the Russell High School in Rome and has a report card with an average of nine. But above all with a 10 in Greek. To study, she uses software, a sort of digital braille that allows her to consult evocabular texts. The title of best delegate and the scholarship in New York are only the last stages of the many satisfactions that Emilia has taken despite the fact that since birth she has been diagnosed with 'Leber's congenital amaurosis', a genetic rarapathology that affects the retina and involves total blindness. In fact Emilia in her young curriculum, she is just 15 years old, shows off being a class representative, practicing athletics and even an amateur actress. Now he will fly to New York.