Going against all odds of life, these visually impaired artists of the city gave a scintillating performance before the Bhopalites. An enthralling musical evening ‘Ek Shaam Umeed Ke Naam’ was witnessed by art lovers at Bharat Bhavan on Tuesday.
The Federal Nigerian Society for the Blind has expressed displeasure over the inhumane treatment meted out to the visually impaired citizens in the country. Speaking at a press conference, ahead of its 12th annual White Cane day fitness walk, the group bemoaned government’s neglect towards the rights of the visually impaired citizens.
The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is planning to complete the distribution of supportive aids to 14,500 differently-abled schoolchildren in the district by August.
A.K. Abdul Hakkeem, district programme officer, SSA, said here on Sunday that hearing-impaired and visually-impaired children were given special attention this time. “They were broadly categorised into four groups – fully deaf and partially blind; partially deaf and fully blind; fully blind; and fully deaf,” he added.
The number of blind people across the world is set to triple within the next four decades, researchers suggest.
Writing in Lancet Global Health, they predict cases will rise from 36 million to 115 million by 2050, if treatment is not improved by better funding.
A growing ageing population is behind the rising numbers.
Some of the highest rates of blindness and vision impairment are in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
The Mysuru unit of the National Federation of the Blind will organise workshops for blind women on August 12 and 18 at the Okkaligara community hall in Vidyaranyapuram. Discussions will be held on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities Act, 2016.
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The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has decided to allocate Rs. 100 crore from the National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation (NHFDC) to the A.P. government towards skill development programmes. It has also agreed to consider setting up another branch of the National Institute of Mentally Handicapped (NIMH) at Amaravati, according to the Union Minister of State, Ramdas Athawale, on Monday.
In August 2016, Divyanshu Ganatra, a visually-impaired adventure enthusiast set out with a sighted captain to pedal from Manali to Khardung La in the Himalayas, a length of 550 kilometres that the team completed in just eight days. He became the first blind tandem cyclist to accomplish the feat.
The phone never stops ringing at Pallavi Acharya’s house. It’s not hard to understand why: the 35-year-old has taken up the responsibility of arranging scribes for close to a 1,000 visually impaired students across Karnataka. In the last two years, Ms. Acharya, who is a consultant with the NGO Youth for Seva, has arranged scribes for 2,500 examinations for more than 350 visually impaired persons.
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