Meet Mauot

Meet Mauot

Mauot Lois Alier

Mauot Louis Alier Anyang, South Sudan

Since 2011, Mauot Louis Alier Anyang has been a disability rights advocate and secretary of education for the South Sudan Association of the Visually Impaired, where he supervises a music-and-drama group known as ‘Hidden ability melody’. His role is to advocate and lobby for persons with disabilities, especially access to education for the blind. He also mentors students, and initiates and supervises the implementation of policies and guidelines developed by the association. He is a co-founder of the South Sudan Union of Persons with Disabilities. Mauot possesses skills in administration, legal issues, and the media, which he acquired as a third-year Law student and through work experience. Upon returning from the Fellowship, he intends to use the skills he has acquired to reform his organization, to contribute to promoting education of the blind, and to establish a magazine as well as student advocacy groups in secondary schools across South Sudan.