New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hailed the determination of the disabled people on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
"I salute determination of our Divyang sisters and brothers and convey my best wishes to them," Modi tweeted.
"Let us continue our ongoing efforts with renewed vigour and create a nation where both accessibility and equality prevail," he said.
SFA’s Braille and Cane Club will host its seventh annual Christmas party from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday in the BPSC Regents Suite B.
“We refer to the event as the Braille and Cane Club Christmas Party,” Laura Kiefer, club president, said.
According to Michael Munro, program director, members invite visually impaired or blind public school students as well as their teachers and parents from the surrounding area to attend.
The Embassy of Chile in India, Instituto Cervantes in New Delhi and Blind Persons’ Association of Kolkata are going to present “Ode to Things”, containing selected poems of the Chilean Nobel Prize Laureate Pablo Neruda), translated into Bangla by Shri Aparajit Chattopadhyay and printed for the first time in South Asia into Braille characters for the visually impaired readers. The book presentation ceremony will be held on Thursday, 1st December 2016, 7 PM at the Auditorium of Instituto Cervantes, 48 Hanuman Road, New Delhi.
BENGALURU: People often fail to see the differently abled as equals, with a right to a life with dignity. What better way to communicate this to them, than with a triumphant song?
The famous Bollywood singer Shanker Mahadevan launched a special song titled ‘Garv Se Jiyenge’ on Sunday which he described as “special”, “beautiful” and “important”.
“I may not be able to fly an aircraft, but I can certainly find my way home,” says Pratik Rajiv Jindal, who has not let his visual impairment deter him from dreaming big.
He is one of the recipients of this year’s Helen Keller awards for disability which would be presented on December 3 to mark World Disability Day.
The 29-year-old from Bengaluru suffers from Retinitis Pigmentosa, a genetic disorder where one loses vision over a period of time. It was at the age of 20 when Jindal was staring at a loss of vision.
International accessibility leader Haben Girma talks about innovation, tech and laws in disability.Being the first deaf-blind graduate from Harvard Law School, she believes that disability is an asset.
PANAJI: The 47th edition of the international film festival of India (Iffi) has become the first film festival in India to screen movies for the visually impaired.
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha is home to over five lakh women with disabilities but only around 10 per cent of them are skilled and employed.
BHUBANESWAR: Specially-abled people from across the State will be participating in an array of events on December 3 on the occasion of the International Day for Persons with Disability. The events, to be organised by Department of Social Security and Empowerment of PwDs (SSEPD), include ability marathon, exhibition, film festival on disability awareness, photography competition and cultural events.
BENGALURU: Blind students struggle to find scribes. Thirty per cent do not manage to find one, approximates an NGO that has worked with the disabled for years.
If the students do, after they have worked on their lessons for a year and have convinced all around them that they can do as well as another able student, the scribe may not turn up on the day of the exam. It breaks the students’ courage and any interest to keep at their studies.
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