Advocacy is one of our guiding principles that form the rocky basis for the attainment of our strategic goals and objectives. This is a holistic approach that we use as a tool to break walls of normality that hinder inclusion of persons with visual impairment in the status quo. LNLVIP firmly stands to be the rigorous voice of blind and partially sighted people to speak for fair and equal treatment, interactive participation in all social activities and equal access to public facilities and services.

We work in collaboration with other civil society organizations for the public support to lobby the government of Lesotho to ratify regional and international human rights instruments that are established to promote the protection and recognition of disability rights and full enjoyment of such rights and freedoms by persons with disabilities. Currently, we are embarking on the collective agenda to recommend the kingdom of Lesotho to sign and eventually ratify the Protocol to African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa. The purpose of this protocol is to ensure the protection and equal enjoyments of human rights by persons with disabilities in Africa.

Suffice to say, LNLVIP deploy advocacy strategy for inclusive education. This is to ensure that children and youth with visual impairment acquire equal access to quality education in all mainstream schools across the country. In Lesotho, it is indicated in the constitution that every person is entitled to quality education regardless of their disability, race, political affiliation, etc., this puts more emphasis on the fact that access to education by the visually impaired is neither a privilege nor a favor.