Charity is crucial for fab Freda

A blind Lanarkshire woman has thanked a charity which has helped her throughout her life.

- ROSS THOMSON

Freda Steel, affectionately known as “Mouse,” has been supported by Sight Scotland throughout her life.

Now 69 and still proudly independent, Freda is sharing her story in the hope of inspiring others to support the charity that has done so much for her over the years.

Born blind, Freda spent her formative years in Stonehouse but started her journey with Sight Scotland at the age of five years old when she enrolled at the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh.

Freda said: “That was a very happy time in my life, I was just a wee girl from Lanarkshire, and they opened up the world to me.

“I learned everything other children did, but also how to live independently - how to cook, clean, move about safely.

“They gave me the confidence to just get on with life.”