Ravi Dahayat was born blind to a low income family in Katni, Madhya Pradesh. He was confined to his home for a whole 27 years before he came in touch with Eyeway.
Ravi never attended school, didn’t have any friends, and was totally dependent on his family. Unaware of how to raise or educate a child with vision impairment, his parents assumed they would need to simply provide for him.
A resident of Kota in Rajasthan, Pawan Mahawar became visually impaired when he was only four years old. Although he comes from a reasonably well-to-do family, no one ever guided Pawan on how to pursue his life or education after blindness. He simply sat at home, being taken care of by his parents and sibling.
36-year-old Halesh HS lives in Shivamogga city of Karnataka. He was employed as a welder for four years before he lost his eye sight in an ammonia gas explosion at work. The accident left him unemployed and entirely dependent on his family for the following 13 years.
Majority of our society deems persons with vision impairment to be worthless, as the general perception is that they cannot be educated or employed like their sighted counterparts. Even people who teach visually impaired children in special schools often believe that their career choices are limited to arts stream. So a lot of blind children stop studying mathematics and science after Class 8.
Dhavan Umredkar is a 47-year-old visually impaired person from Nagpur, Maharashtra. In 1996, he was employed in one of the departments under the Central Government. Unfortunately, ten years later, Dhavan started experiencing sight loss and was later diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa. His gradually deteriorating vision slowed his pace of work, which led to his transfer to a different department that required non-technical work. However, the lack of basic skills training made him face many challenges.
Earlier this year, Eyeway Helpdesk in Bangalore received a call from a worried father whose son’s vision had drastically deteriorated in the past few months.
Although Suresh’s son Sumanth had low vision and night blindness by birth, he could still function with the limited eyesight. Studying in a mainstream school, suddenly he was unable to read or write.
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26-year-old Punam Ohal is a visually impaired resident of Pune, Maharashtra. In February, she appeared for the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) clerk exam and cleared it. On selection for the post of clerk at a nationalised bank, she was asked to produce an online disability certificate, despite having a hard copy of the same. To do this, she was asked to apply for a Unique Disability Identification (UDID) card on the Swavlamban website and provide the hospital with a printout of the form.
CHENNAI: Three years ago, in a-first-of-its-kind initiative, the state government had installed audio signals at 150 locations in the city. The device, attached to traffic signal posts, guided the visually impaired by informing them on the signal and helped them walk without the fear of being hit by a vehicle.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF PERSONS WITH VISUAL DISABILITIES (DIVYANGJAN) (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities)
Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment,
Govt. of India 116, Rajpur Road, dehradun-248001
Uttarakhand
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit http://nivh.gov.in/images/1miscpostfeb2020.pdf
The last date for receipt of application is 13.03.2020..
A statewide study conducted in all schools for the blind revealed that the Centre’s vitamin A supplementation programme for pregnant mothers has been a success with the number of children being born blind dropping drastically as compared to the numbers when a similar study was done 15 years ago by the same organisation.
Advt. No.URSC:01:2020
बीजीएफआई- नई सोच तथा अविष्कार को अपनाना हमारी मुख्य ताकत रही है।
१९८५ में वॉक तू विन से लेकर वकालत, सुगमता, अनुभवात्मक शिक्षा, ज्ञान
साझा करने के सत्रों और मेंटरशिप तक, हमने अपने स्तर पर पूरी कोशिश की है
कि हम अपने जीवन से संबंधित सबसे महत्वपूर्ण पहलुओं को सभी को स्वतंत्र,
जागरूक, और सुरक्षित बनाने के लिए सबसे बेहतर प्रयास करें।
The Aam Aadmi Party has taken charge for the third time in Delhi with a decisive mandate in the recent Assembly elections. In this week’s guest column Tapas Bharadwaj, a visually impaired law student from the national capital, reflects on how issues relating to the disabled community need to better reflected in the agenda of political parties.
Abstract
The prototype Smart White Cane developed by Kyocera makes use of wireless transmission technology.
Railway operators have been placing platform doors to prevent blind and visually impaired passengers from falling onto the tracks or colliding with moving trains. But not all stations can be fitted with these doors.
From experience I can say there are many people who do not know that they can volunteer to make the life of the visually challenged better,” says Barath S N, the founder of Chennai-based Lit the Light, a group formed four years ago to help visually impaired students across Tamil Nadu. The NGO is organising the year’s first ‘Read Fest’ in temple town to sensitise more people to reading and scribing for the visually challenged.
A statewide study conducted in schools for visually impaired has revealed that causes of childhood blindness are changing as society makes socio-economic progress. The study was conducted by a team from H V Desai Eye Hospital’s team, said Dr Sucheta Kulkarni, principal investigator.
The hospital will hold a meeting on February 18 to discuss the findings of the research, sources said. The findings are likely to influence government policies on eyecare funding for children, sources added.
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