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Unfazed by pellet blindness, Insha takes her Class 10 exams

Tue, 11/21/2017 - 10:53 -- koshy.mathew@ey...

InshaMushtaq, the teenage girl completely blinded by pellets fired by government forces during the 2016 uprising in Kashmir, is currently taking her class 10 examination, asserting that she would not give in to her disability and is determined to continue her studies.

On 18th of this month, Insha walked out of her house to write the fourth paper of her board examination. She was accompanied by her cousins.

“They come with me to the exam center where my helper waits for me,” said Insha.

Blind hawkers face tough times

Mon, 11/20/2017 - 13:58 -- koshy.mathew@ey...

The ban on hawkers near railway stations has hit at least 1,000 families whose their bread winner is visually impaired.

There are at least 1,000 blind hawkers who sell either stationery or daily needs to commuters. There are some blind hawkers who sit at railway bridges and sell folders, card holders and other items including nail cutters, chains with locks and also key-chains.

Blind veterans find their way in a dark world

Mon, 11/20/2017 - 12:15 -- koshy.mathew@ey...

BILOXI, Miss. — Keith Bynum, a blind Army veteran, lives by this rule: Life is not over just because you can’t see.

“You’ve got to have a positive mind to keep yourself going,” said the 55-year-old.

Bynum is one of 18 veterans at the Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System’s Blind Rehab Center in Biloxi. The facility opened in 2011 and has served 173 veterans in those six years.

Visually-challenged Indian woman says she was locked up in Munich airport lounge

Fri, 11/17/2017 - 13:56 -- geeta.nair

Visually challenged gender activist Nidhi Goyal has blamed global airline major Lufthansa of insensitivity and apathy, alleging that she was “locked up” inside the passenger carrier’s disability assistance lounge at Munich airport while waiting for her flight to Mumbai.

The incident, Goyal said, occurred on Monday (November 13) when she was waiting for a connecting flight to Mumbai at the Munich airport.

How one woman chose to be the eyes of visually impaired children

Thu, 11/16/2017 - 11:09 -- geeta.nair

Vanessa Bahati’s last born son was born with visual impairment. After visiting several hospitals in Europe and locally, the results were negative. The reality that her son would never be able to see propelled her to begin her charity organisation ‘Jordan Foundation’ which was named after her son.

The foundation is now home to other visually impaired children. The mother of four had a chat with Women Today’s Sharon Kantengwa on how the organisation has changed the lives of visually impaired children.

A special date with the President

Thu, 11/16/2017 - 10:47 -- geeta.nair

Unique visit for visually impaired children

A group of students of the Nalgonda School for the Blind called on President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday, celebrating Children’s Day with other participating schools and institutions.

Sharing the experience of the meeting, General Secretary of the Development & Welfare Association of the Blind (DWAB) P. Chokka Rao said the event was a significant one, and it encouraged the students.

Blind people call for secret voting rights

Thu, 11/16/2017 - 10:40 -- geeta.nair

Visually-impaired people have urged the Election Commission (EC) to make necessary arrangements so that they can have the secret voting right.

At an interaction on election of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies at Dhulikhel on Tuesday, the visually impaired also drew the EC’s notice to the lack of voter education programmes for the people with disabilities.

Children’s Eye Care Week at LVPEI

Wed, 11/15/2017 - 11:03 -- geeta.nair

An awareness campaign about Amblyopia (lazy eyes) and squint (crossed eyes) was taken up by L.V. Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) on the occasion of Children’s Day and as part of Children’s Eye Care Week on Tuesday.

Amblyopia is a vision development disorder among children in which an eye fails to achieve normal vision even with full prescription glasses or contact lens. In most cases, only one eye is affected but if left untreated, it can cause severe visual disability in the affected eye.
 

Assam to provide free textbooks to blind students

Wed, 11/15/2017 - 10:46 -- geeta.nair

The Assam Government will provide free textbooks to visually impaired students of the State, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said on Tuesday.

The Chief Minister made the announcement while releasing a guidebook for the visually challenged students for competitive examinations.

Mr. Sonowal said his government has taken up various programmes aimed at uplifting the lives of the 4.4 lakh ’dibyangs’ (differently abled) in Assam.

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