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Our Patrons are aligned with our values and support our work to make communities more inclusive for people with disabilities.

Helen Fospero

Helen is proud to be an ambassador for SeeAbility.

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Helen Fospero is a familiar face on British TV screens. She’s a journalist & presenter and has worked for all major UK broadcasters – BBC, Sky News, ITV and Five – hosting live programmes. Helen reports for The One Show on BBC1 & appears on C4's Countdown. 

Helen was a regular on the GMTV sofa, hosting the main show and Lorraine. She lived in New York as U.S Correspondent for ITV. During this time, she was the only British TV reporter to witness the twin towers fall on September 11th . 

She also specialised in entertainment, interviewing stars including Sir Elton John; George Clooney; Jennifer Lopez; Tom Cruise and Al Pacino. She covered The Oscars, broadcasting live from the red carpet in LA, and The Cannes Film Festival. 

She loves her role as a corporate presenter, hosting business conferences & awards for brands like Rolls-Royce Motor Cars; Canary Wharf Group and Hyundai. 

She also makes films for corporate clients and has just finished one for Britain’s extraordinary RAF aerobatic team The Red Arrows. 

Helen is proud to be an ambassador for SeeAbility.

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Published: 13th August, 2020

Updated: 31st December, 2020

Author: Kat Akass

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Amar Latif

Amar Latif is passionate about ensuring visually impaired travellers never have to accept restrictions on their world travel aspirations.

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Amar lost his sight when he was 18 years old, but still wanted to explore the world. However, when he approached mainstream travel companies as a solo blind traveler, he faced rejection.

In the wake of this, and after a successful career as the head of finance at one of the UK’s largest international telecommunications firms, Amar decided to create Traveleyes. 

His aim was to empower thousands of blind individuals all over the world to explore the planet as independently as their sighted counterparts, and, since the company was founded in 2004, it has gone from strength to strength as the world’s leading commercial tour operator offering independent group travel for both blind and sighted travelers.

The success of Traveleyes has seen Amar become a widely sought-after media personality and motivational speaker. His first television appearance in 2004’s Beyond Boundaries (BBC Two) saw Amar pushing the limits of human endurance as he and a team of other disabled adventurers trekked 220 miles across the entire width of Nicaragua, navigating active volcanoes and shark-infested lakes along the way. Since then, he’s explored the world of personal health for How to Get Fit Fast (Channel 4), guided a comedian through the hidden delights of Turkey for Travelling Blind (BBC One), and delved to the depths of ancient canyons for River Walks (BBC One).

More recently he’s been exploring the spiritual world as well as the physical one on Pilgrimage: The Road to Istanbul (BBC One), a three part series in which he and six other well-known personalities trekked the Sultans Trail pilgrimage route as part of a quest to understand their own faiths. As well as this, Amar has been cooking up a storm on Celebrity MasterChef (BBC One), becoming the UK series’ first ever blind contestant as part of his quest to show the world exactly how far you can get by refusing negativity and embracing opportunities to do something new.

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Published: 13th August, 2020

Updated: 31st December, 2020

Author: Kat Akass

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