Copy of souvenir published by NFB Karnataka at the occasion of Last world
braille day 2017.
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October was World Eye Care Awareness Month and is something I feel very strongly about. I want to succeed in work and life but it has been a tough journey on the career front so far. I am completely blind and want to share my experiences in the hope that it will help people to understand my position, as well as that of many other fellow South Africans. By ZINGISA NGWENYA KONA.
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN: Out of the total 269 polling stations set up for the NA-4 by-polls, 95 per cent lack essential accessibility criteria for persons with disabilities, elders and sick people, an audit report revealed.
The survey, conducted by sister foundation of Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives, the Pakistan Alliance for Inclusive Elections [PAIE], through October 16 to October 22, found that only five per cent of the total polling stations were accessible while 42 per cent did not have obstacle free passage leading to the centre.
Chandigarh, October 30
Punjab University (PU) today installed two scanners for visually impaired students of the varsity.
According to PU librarian Dr Raj Kumar, with the help of scanners, visually disabled students can scan books, notes, magazines and other study material. After scanning, it gets stored in their laptop or computer in the PDF format. Then the text could be converted into audio book. The total cost of the scanners with software is around Rs 1.3 lakh.
Mumbai: The batsman effortlessly wraps up the last over of the match with a sixer, bringing the score to 381 for no loss.
Amidst cheers from teammates and spectators, he walks up to his partner, bumps his fist, and they walk away with their heads held high. The scene is typical of any cricket match, but with one difference: the players are visually challenged.
A DANCER in a black ball gown tosses her head back, exposing an elegant neckline, and delicately lifts the sides of her ruffled skirt just enough to reveal the tip of one of her feet.
This early oil painting by Eugen Spiro (1874-1972) is one of a group of artworks that have been made accessible to blind people as part of a new exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie.
Peter Holley Watching Fernando Albertorio stroll down a crowded footpath into downtown Washington during a recent lunch hour, casually sidestepping pedestrians running errands and crowding around food trucks, you'd have no idea he is legally blind.
Albertorio easily blends into the flow of human traffic swirling around him, which is even more remarkable considering that he is doing so largely without the use of his limited vision.
Panaji: H R Sandesh of Bengaluru-based organisation 'Enable India' is visually impaired, and is aware that the blind in today's age cannot be self-sufficient unless trained in the use of computers.
Yet since 2005 thousands of blind and visually impaired people have seized the chance of its sensory and sociable trips to discover places where once access for them was off limits.
Now thanks to entrepreneur Latif if they fancy rambling along the spiralling paths of Machu Picchu, the Inca citadel high among the Peruvian Andes, they can.
KAKINADA: With the State government applying the norm of ‘One pension for one family’, thousands of disabled persons are unable to get pensions. Nearly 15,000 disabled have not been able to get pensions since 2014.
The authorities have said that they are unable to do anything in the wake of government policy.
There are 19,388 disabled persons, 22,470 persons with hearing impairment, 35,389 physically challenged, 10,179 blind persons, 13,601 persons with multiple disabilities and 14,000 persons with other disabilities in East Godavari district.
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