In a bid to spread awareness about eye donation, around 500 denizens participated in a 2km 'blind walk' in the city on Sunday.
Titled 'Sight-A-Thon 2017', Hyderabadis from all walks of life took part in the walk along with many celebrities from Tollywood who added star-power to the do.
Panaji, Aug 31 (UNI) Indian Blind Football Federation and Society for Rehabilitation of the Visually Challenged (SRVC) will be conducting the first-ever blind football demo game in Goa with an aim to introduce the game and to encourage blind footballers to take up the game and form a state side in the future.
The Goan chapter of National Association for the Blind along with FC Goa and Chowgule Sports Center is organizing the demo game on of September 2 at the Futsal Arena at the Chowgule Sports Center in Gogol, Margao.
Ahmed Piyarji (6), could not sit for 10 minutes at a stretch and had difficulty seeing things at a distance. Last year, he was diagnosed with low vision and hearing impairment along with cerebral palsy
After sustained special education, speech therapy, physiotherapy, occupational and vision therapy, he can sit up and perform daily activities like eating and drinking with limited assistance. He is also doing well in areas like fine motor and gross motor skill development, socialisation and communication.
What started as an idea to help a visually-impaired schoolmate, developed into a smart technology that will allow visually-impaired people to read. Students at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in Al Ain have developed a pocket-sized smart reading device called Braille Eye. The startup technology is being incubated at UAEU's Science and Innovation Park.
The numbers are mind-boggling: 1,006 pairs of eyes that have endowed 2,012 people with the gift of sight.
K. Selvaraj, eye donation activist and social worker for the visually challenged since 1994, keeps a record of his work on his fingertips.
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 29
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has decided to hold an athletics championship for the differently-abled of the national Capital. The athletics meet will be held from October 11-13 this year at Talkatora Stadium.
In this regard, the body has already invited entries from visually impaired and orthopedically challenged students in the age group of 11-14 years under junior category and 15-18 years under senior category for the athletics meet.
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has decided to institute an athletics championship for the differently-abled. The civic body has invited entries from visually impaired and orthopedically challenged students in the age group of 11- 14 years under the junior category and 15-18 years under the senior category for the athletics meet to be held form October 11 to 13.
CHENNAI: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will widen the security blanket to cover private airports in a phased manner.
Plans are afoot to induct an additional 20,000 security personnel across all airports in the country, said Director-General OP Singh.
“We will have a unified command for all 98 airports,” said Singh. “The focus will be on digital surveillance video analytics and perimeter screening,” he said during an interactive session on ‘Safety and Security of Airports’ organised by Air Passengers’ Association of India.
“We can’t see the color of our costumes. We can’t see you all. But we can see your expressions through our hearts,” said Taraka Ramudu one of the dancer among the five visually challenged dancers who gave an extraordinary performance arranged by the Department of Language and Culture, Government of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday evening at Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao Government Music and Dance College.
Manav Mander
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, August 28
Government College for Girls, Rakh Bagh, has come up with a special initiative to support, encourage, help and enable those who are disabled by enrolling special students in the 'Handicap Enabling Cell'.
At present, there are 17 students enrolled under this cell and 16 are pursuing graduation, while one is a post-graduate student. Students not only from the district, but from the neighbouring states are also studying under
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