Today is January 1, 2020, an important year the whole world has been looking forward to. It has been the subject of our discourse locally and internationally, since 1999 when the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) commenced the global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness – Vision 2020: The Right to Sight.
GUWAHATI, Aug 23 - Juggling with a myriad of thoughts, I entered the classroom of seven students of Class X, eagerly listening to their teacher with a recorder in their hands. They greeted me with warm smiles and thus encouraged, I took a seat alongside.
A delegation of differently abled people met the Bharatiya Janata Party Uttarakhand unit president Ajay Bhatt demanding a strong Divyang Ayog, reservation in politics and some amendments in Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. In a memorandum submitted to the BJP State president, the delegation has demanded the restructuring of Divyang welfare committee at the State level.
Nakilat recently organised a bowling session for the visually impaired in co-operation with the Qatar Social and Cultural Center for the Blind. Volunteers from Nakilat acted as guides, some of them were blindfolded during the session to better appreciate the challenge of bowling without the sense of sight. Bowling is one of the few sports that can be enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities, and blind bowling has proven to be very popular with the use of guide rails.
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Few things have such a huge impact on happiness and the enjoyment, depth, and fun of life as the friendships we have.
It could be the friendships with people in our community, workplace, gym, or school. Close friendships can evolve with the people we’ve known for a few months, years, or since we were kids. Personally, I spend a lot of time cultivating and nurturing an array of friendships, while also striving to be a good friend.
Yusuf Huraira has complete vision loss, which means he’s never had the experience of drawing with a pen. He has had to rely either on Braille, or on his teachers or fellow students to help him.
So many in our country are shocked at the mention of photography by the blind, they cannot seem to wrap their head around the concept. Why and how would a blind person take a photograph? Like most photographers, persons with blindness too have been drawn to photography out of a curiosity to explore the world through images.
There is need for more advocacy to ensure people with visual impairment are not discriminated in the labour market and social protection programmes for them to avoid begging culture.
The appeal was made at a news conference organised by Rwanda Union of Blind in Kigali, last week.
Dr Patrick Suubi, legal representative of the Union, said employers need to give a chance to visually impaired people to demonstrate their ability.
Blind and visually-impaired people in the country can now read any printed Nepali characters using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, which was launched on Monday.
The software, developed by two IT experts from the Kathmandu University (KU) for the Nepal Netra Joyti Sangh in financial support of the Australian government, was launched by Australian Ambassador to Nepal, Peter Budd, amid a function.
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