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My Weekly - Holidays that change your life
Describing Sorrento to my visually impaired companions was a unique holiday experience…
 Sometimes things are just meant to be. Last summer, a casual glance at an advertisement on a local website led to me having probably the best holiday of my life, in one of the most beautiful parts of Italy – Sorrento. What made this holiday different was that I would be one of a group made up of visually-impaired and sighted holidaymakers.
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Amar Latif talks to Real Business in association with Orange
 Amar Latif was diagnosed with the genetic eye condition retinitis pigmentosa when he was four years old. By the time he hit his twenties, hed lost 95 per cent of his sight. But that didnt stop him ...
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Lexus Magazine - Making a Difference
 When Amar Latif founded Traveleyes, the first tour company for the blind, he taught sighted people new ways of seeing too. AT 16, AMAR LATIF LEARNED THE IMPORTANCE OF free movement – a lesson that would influence the course of his life. Latif was born with the degenerative eye condition retinitis pigmentosa, and his sight had been deteriorating since his early teens. This didn’t sit well with an active teenage boy. ‘I continued riding my bike until my parents had to sell it because I kept running into rubbish skips and things like that,’ he says with a hard-earned laugh.
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The Mail on Sunday - Disability should be no drawback for entrepreneurs
 DISABLED entrepreneurs have been given a big boost to help them grow their businesses.
Enabled4Growth, a £1.6 million three-year initiative aimed at helping them get access to funding, was launched last week by the Leonard Cheshire Disability charity. It will be funded partly by the European Regional Development Fund.
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Vienna
 The following is a speech delivered by Amar Latif on receiving the award: Outstanding Young Business Entrepreneur of the World, 2005 from the Chamber of Commerce International JCI, in Vienna on Oct 25th.
Hello. My name is Amar Latif. I’m Scottish, but I’m here representing the city of Leeds...
When I was at school in Glasgow, there were two types of people. First: the strictly conventional type, those who ‘played it safe’, aiming for one of the ‘traditional professions’. Second were the more creative and unconventional types, who lived unpredictable, risky and colourful lives.
It looked like I was destined to be a member of the first type : a safe, conventional, professional. My plans to study accountancy crystallised around the same time as the diagnosis that I was suffering from Retinitis Pigmentosa, which causes sight loss, and is at present irreversible. My university years included one year’s study in Canada. It was here that travel became my new vision, and many international friends became my new ‘second family’.
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