“It is time to celebrate with a Chocó cone!” Both Mother and son sit at the dining table around 10 in the night and thank God for the end of May and the beginning of June as they count their blessings reminiscing about how the past month has gone by peacefully with a few hiccups. The breeze is pleasant ,with a touch of pre monsoon showers bringing in fresh reasons to celebrate the beginning of yet another academic year.
The Center for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS), New Delhi is engaging in an action research project titled ‘Violence against Women and Girls with Physical Disabilities in India: Understanding the Issues and Promoting Legal Empowerment’. Professor Renu Addlakha is the project director of this
two year research-cum-advocacy project being funded by the South Asia Women’s Fund (SAWF). The project has a two-fold agenda:
Story from Uganda: Blindness does not stop this beekeeper, baker, and kayaker from expanding their vision.
In rural Uganda, people who are blind or visually impaired often go to the city to look for work. But jobs are hard to find, and many end up as street beggars.
Instead, Ojok Simon wants them to know about a way they can earn money without leaving home: beekeeping. Simon, 36, became visually impaired after he was severely beaten by rebels who came to his village when he was a child.
Nagpur: Sonali Nandkumar, 38, who is partially blind, lost some courage when less marks in banking exams meant she would not get a job there. "They told me that exams would be re-conducted once the new government takes over, but I failed to clear those too," says the BA graduate.
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.
As part of its efforts to banish all ills that can impede the State’s transition to a knowledge hub, the government has introduced a series of educational schemes for not just the backward communities but also, in a first of its kind, for students who come from economically backward families regardless of the community they belong to.
To provide a ladder to the physically-disabled students to scale great heights in life, the government proposes to start a Study Circle to train them for competitive exams and civil services.
Father and Son Reading Together
Here’s eye-opening news: Currently, 4.2 million Americans ages 40 and older are visually impaired. Of these, 3 million have low vision. By 2030, when the last baby boomers turn 65, the number of Americans who have visual impairments is projected to reach 7.2 million, with 5 million having low vision.
It is a misconception that a visually impaired cannot lead another visually impaired person, said G.A. Peter Kishore, principal of Andhra Loyola College, here on Wednesday.
He was addressing the inaugural meeting of a month-long computer training organised by the college.
Visually impaired honoured for making a mark in their lives at SCD Government College.
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, June 27
Visually-impaired persons, who have made a mark in their lives, was honoured during a function organised by the Punarjot Guldasta Eye Bank Society here today.
The function at SCD Government College saw the visually-impaired veterans share their words of wisdom.
Minna Zutshi Tribune News Service Ludhiana, June 27 Helen Keller, whose birth anniversary falls on June 27, is this educationist’s inspiration. Paramjit Kaur, Principal, Braille Bhawan Government Institute for Blind, believes that visual impairment is nothing more than a form of ‘limitation’. “Being visually challenged is a limitation – nothing more. Anyone can have a limitation. There’s no need to be ashamed of any limitation for which you are not responsible. I am not responsible for my visual impairment.
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