HYDERABAD: More than 4,000 volunteers will be in place to help differently-abled including visually-impaired voters in the city on the election day. Of the total volunteers, 3,000 will be deployed at polling stations in Hyderabad district and rest will be helping voters in Ranga Reddy district.
Telangana Elections 2018 Live Updates: 9 per cent voting till 9am
LAHORE: Lahore Metro Bus operation remained suspended on Thursday after dozens of visually impaired persons staged a sit-in at Kalma Chowk for the job quota.
They blocked the track, protesting against the government for not announcing job quota for them. They also demanded regularisation of their jobs.
They said the government was not honouring the commitments it made to them during their previous protests.
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for Persons with Vision Impairment- Windows 7’ is now available on
Enable Academy as an Order. The publication contains audio tutorials
to help the visually impaired learn basic computer concepts in Windows
– 7.
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NAB Delhi announces the first ever Digital Accessibility Training Program for the visually impaired under the ARICENT Roshni Ka Safar Project. This project is being supported by ARICENT, a leading Global Design and Engineering company under their CSR Initiative.
Course starts: 2 January 2019. Course ends 31 March 2019. Last date to apply: 18 December 2018
A big part of the magic of movies lies in the awe and thrill they inspire as you watch stories of people triumphing over impossible odds. Going to the movies, however, is often the opposite experience for people with disabilities, given the many barriers they encounter, right from entering the theater itself.
Over the last 22 years, Samarthanam Trust for disabled in collaboration with
the government, corporates and the other civil society individuals has
embarked upon various pathbreaking projects ranging from inclusive
education, employment generation, livelihood provider to disability
Sports in 15th cities of the country. On upcoming 8th December 2018,
Samarthanam is organising its 14th Bengaluru walkathon to support
digital literacy and promote digital inclusion for persons with
Institute on Disability
19 – 22 November 2018, Nagpur
19 year old Alvin Paulose is a resident of Ernakulam district in Kerala. Since birth Alvin suffers from a nerve disorder due to which his eyesight is deteriorating gradually. This impacted his education in a mainstream school where the modes of teaching were largely visual. Alvin had to rely on his teachers and friends to read out study material he had trouble seeing. In addition he used an audio recorder to keep notes from his classroom proceedings.
Rahul Kumar from Mussorie, Uttarakhand is 24 years old and was born visually impaired. He was born into a poor family, where his father works as a cook in the nearby convent school and mother stays as a home-maker. He also has two younger sisters who are also visually impaired. But being poor and unaware of living life with blindness, Rahul and his sisters were living within their available means. Rahul was put in the nearby mainstream government school where he studied in the midst of many challenges.
Shivkumar Patil is a resident of Solapur, Maharashtra and was born sighted into a poor family. At the age of 4 years he was affected by a retina related eye disease. Although his parents sought treatment at various hospitals for him, they had to endure with a complete vision loss. He was put in a nearby blind school in Solapur with a residential facility. He studied in the blind school till he completed his 10th standard.
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Disabled, differently abled, specially abled – these are the words that Harry Boniface Prabhu, a quadriplegic wheelchair tennis champion for India, smiles at.
“True disability is in person’s mind. Once it is overcome, then there are no barriers for disabled people to find success,” is how Harry Boniface Prabhu explains it to Hindustan Times, adding, “I say to people, ‘God has blessed you with normal legs and I have legs which are round in shape with a metal plate’.”
More than 100 differently-abled women and girls have raised allegations of sexual harassment in West Bengal alone since 2012, a city-based NGO working for the rights of the disabled said.
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