For anyone who completes the iconic New York Marathon, the sense of achievement is huge. But for visually impaired couple Mike Lloyd, who also lives with Parkinson's Disease, and Laura Eitjes, the achievement is barely comprehensible.
MYSURU: Shivananda Kelur, the teacher, stretches his legs out in front, inhales and raises his arms above his head. Later, he exhales, bends forward and stretches his arms towards the toes.Scores of students bend and adopt the same stance. But this is not your typical yoga class. All these students are visually challenged.
BENGALURU: The Braille Resource Centre at Bengaluru Central at Bengaluru Central University (BCU) is all set to create a pool of professional and volunteer scribes to help visually impaired students write exams.
In the heart of Kolkata, not very far away from the sprawling Maidan, six teams got together for a one-of-a-kind tournament — the first East Zone Blind Football tournament — on Saturday.
On the sixth floor of ‘Extraatime Turf’, Shakira’s ‘Waka Waka’ played loudly on stereo speakers while players dribbled and referees were immersed in pre-match pep talk.
Sikhumbuzo Moyo, Senior Sports Reporter
SIX visually impaired pupils from Murehwa High School in Mashonaland East are appealing for assistance to take part in the second edition of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSAB1 Football) women’s training camp and games in Japan.
A total of £3 000 is needed to register the girls for the tournament that will be held in Tokyo and Saitama, Japan, from February 20-25, 2019.
MUMBAI: IIT-Bombay, one of the country’s leading Institution of Eminence, is yet to make its campus accessible to all.
Suhail A Shah
Pampore, October 28
When he was six months old, this Pampore youth was hit by a mysterious disease, leading to complete blindness.
With grit he has, however, not only become self-sufficient but also the first-ever Kashmiri to make it to the Indian national cricket team for blind.
While talking to The Tribune at his home amid the saffron fields in Dussoo village of Pampore in Pulwama district, Irfan Ahmad Mir, 21, was all smiles while he narrated his feat.
A Ghatkopar-based NGO helped nine visually impaired couples get married on Sunday. The annual pre-Diwali initiative by the Omkar Andh KEVK Society also saw the couples being helped with groceries and basic kitchen necessities to start off their married life.
“We have been carrying out mass weddings for couples with visual impairment for the past 10 years. The couples come from all over Maharashtra,” said committee member Ashok Deorepatil, who managed the event.
BHOPAL: An engineering student, who is a civil service aspirant, claimed she carried out a series of "sting operations" against middlemen and doctors involved in issuing fake disability certificates. She also lodged an official complaint with the Lokayukta organisation seeking a case against those involved.
Hundreds of disabled persons took out a protest march in the city on Thursday and overpowered police barricades to stage a dharna outside CM’s camp office.
The protesters were demanding the implementation of Right for Disabled Law, 2016, pension and pass of train and bus facility for people with 40 per cent disability, Rs 5,000 monthly pension, an increase in the reservation quota for disabled in government jobs from 3 to 4 per cent and filling of all vacant posts in the quota in all departments.
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