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A MACHINE that photographs text and reads it out for the visually impaired will keep members of St John's Residential Home connected with the world, one of its donors has said.

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The Read Easy Move was donated to the home by the Guernsey Blind Association.

Vision support officer Debbie Clarke said the machine could read typed letters and emails from family members, bank statements, books and even the Guernsey Press.

'It means that rather than having to wait for a member of staff or a family member to be around to read it to them, residents can sit quietly in their room by themselves or with headphones and do it themselves – it gives them back some independence.'

Funding for the £1,600 machine was donated by the family of one of the home's former residents, Peter Lihou, who died last year, aged 86.

'The Blind Association did a lot for my father when he was alive, it was one of his wishes when he passed away that some of his estate was donated to the association, and the home was his last residential address, so it is very fitting,' said one of his sons, Nigel, 54.

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