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Scholarship for the Academic year 2018-19
Basudeo Bubna Memorial Trust - Voice Vision Project takes great pleasure in announcing its scholarship for the academic year 2018-19 - Sponsored by Taksheel Foundation
Financial assistance is provided to deserving undergraduate students with visual impairment. Who are pursuing his/ her graduation or a diploma from recognised university in India.
Institution for Computer Training & Over All Development of Blind, Visually Impaired and Low Vision
Project of Basudeo Bubna Memorial Trust- Reg. No.E17891
Offer from Silver Linings to go on a partly
Silver Linings Annual trip to Pangot is once again inviting visually impaired holiday lovers!
Dates: 27th 28th and 29th July 2018
We have limmited seats, these will go on first come first serve bases! So hurry!
Cost: Rs. 2,500/ per person
Travel from Delhi and back, stay and 3 meals per day are included!
Confirmation of your seat will only be once we get your payment! Also this payment is non refundable!
For more information, please contact me by phone or e mail
Phone: 9871701646
New Menu-Reading, Web-Based App Helps Visually Impaired
Reading the menu at a restaurant wouldn’t take much effort for most sighted diners. But for the blind and visually impaired, trying to figure out what to order and what the meal would cost could be a daunting experience.
Just ask Stephanie Jones, who had to rely on her children and friends to read the menu so she could order what she really wanted. “Whoever was with me would read the menu,” said Jones, the mother of five children. “I used braille menus in the past, but they’re not always updated. But you learn to work through it.”
MOVIE ‘NETRAHEEN SAKSHI’ SCREENED AT TRIBAL MUSEUM
A children’s movie Netraheen Sakshi (The Blind Witness) was screened at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum here on Thursday. The movie was screened under the regular film screenings of the tribal museum ‘Ullas’.
The movie is based on the life of a blind boy who can actually identify people correctly through their voices. But, what he witnesses formed rest of the story. The movie is directed by Nabendu Ghosh and features, Beena Bannerjee, Alok Nath and Manisha Patel in lead roles.
Put proposals of visually impaired before RBI: HC
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Centre to place before the RBI suggestions made by the visually-impaired on ways to distinguish between various denominations of currency notes with help of features like cut edges or different shapes and sizes.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/put-proposals-of-visually-impaired-before-rbi-hc/article23498051.ece
Central Administrative Tribunal order to post visually impaired
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal came to rescue of a visually impaired candidate by directing the Centre to appoint him to civil service and allocate a suitable post based on the rank he secured in Civil Service Examinations 2016. A two-member bench comprising Justices R. Kantha Rao and Minnie Mathew allowed an application by Rizwan Basha Shaik from Kurnool, challenging the proceedings issued by the Department of Personal and Training (DoPT, IAS division) cancelling his selection.
JUNIOR PERSONAL ASSISTANTS
INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION (ISRO)
Department of Space, Government of India
Advertisement No. ISRO HQ: ICRB: 02:2018 dated 10.04.2018
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit
https://www.isro.gov.in/sites/default/files/biligualadvt_jpa_steno_2018_...
Last date for Online submission of Application: 30.04.2018
Visually impaired Gurbir does the city proud
Gurbir Singh Dehlon, a visually impaired athlete from Ludhiana, has brought fame to his parents and the coach by clinching two medals in the recently held Para National Athletics Championship.
Gurbir, a total blind athlete, participated in this championship held at Panchkula where he finished at the victory podium in two events. He finished ahead of others to annex gold medal in the 400-metre race besides winning bronze in the 200-metre race.
PUNJAB TO COVER 21 DISABILITIES UNDER NEW RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITY ACT
The Punjab Government has decided to add 14 new disabilities under the Rights of Persons with Disability Act-2016 taking the total number to 21.
Announcing this, the state Social Security, Women and Child Development Minister Razia Sultan on Tuesday said: “With this, the financial and other benefits of other social security schemes would be extended to more number of disabled persons.”
New device gives visually-impaired toddlers a chance to move
A new device is giving toddlers - who are visually impaired - a chance to move, explore, and learn with less fear and risk of falling.
For a visually impaired person, a cane is what gives them mobility and a measure of safety as they navigate the mostly unseen world around them.
However, toddlers don't have the physical dexterity or attention span to learn to use a cane effectively, so their exploration of the world around them becomes a bruising experience.
Not surprisingly, visually impaired toddlers become hesitant to move around.
Blind UNILAG student gets scholarship
Blind UNILAG student gets scholarship
By Victor Ifeanyi Uzoho
10 April 2018 | 3:52 am
scholarship
The Onome Akinlolu Majaro (OAM) Foundation, a group championing the plights of persons with albinism, has given a four-year scholarship to a blind albino, 29-year-old Victor Kalu, a native of Bende in Abia State and 100-level student of History & Strategic Studies at the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
IIST students take Braille to the next level
A group of students from Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology builds a Braille reader to help the visually challenged to read, both printed and online
Thailand great for differently-abled’
BENGALURU : Travelling can be an enriching experience. While we able-bodied people look at ensuring we get the right facilities, visit the best spots and are carrying the right luggage with us when we travel, those who are differently-abled might find difficulty doing the little things while on a trip that we tend to overlook. In spite of their disabilities, these courageous people have travelled to multiple places across the globe.
Leading towards possibilities
Pankaj Kumar, a 19-year-old man from Bihar was born blind. He remained uneducated till 18 years; he sat idle at home not knowing how to live a life with blindness. Also, being born into a well-to-do family, he was ably supported and cared for by his parents and two siblings.
Confidence is the key
Veena (name changed), a 15 years old girl from Cochin, Kerala contacted Eyeway the day before her 10th Board exams. She is suffering from Bilateral Macular Scar which is gradually deteriorating her vision. Her visual impairment is more than 40% but still, she doesn’t possess a disability certificate. She hails from a low-income family where her father works as a “help” in a shop and her mother is unemployed.
Battling for his rights
Satish Mishra, 21 years old is from Varanasi, UP and he lost his eyesight from brain fever when he was 16 years. His father is a farmer and mother is a homemaker.
Ambitious to overcome the challenges
Ranjan Gupta (name changed) is 23 years old. He is from Chikali, Buldana in Maharashtra. He belongs to a six-member family of his mother, father and four siblings. His father is a farmer and his mother is unemployed, thus a low-income family. He was born with his eyes shut and his parents found out there were no eyeballs in his eye socket, leaving him blind. Though the child’s eye condition left the parents shocked, they never lost hope and always took care of him.
Rules must aid and empower
Sunil Kumar, 21 years old from East of Kailash, Delhi connected to Eyeway Helpdesk in Feb 2018 with a scribe-related challenge. He hails from a six-member large family where he is the only visually
impaired person and from birth. This is a low-income family, with both parents being daily wage earners.
A lifetime of challenges
The first time Rajesh Chauhan (name changed), a 70-year-old visually impaired man connected to Eyeway from Ahmednagar, Maharashtra was in March 2017. Him being a radio enthusiast, he heard the Eyeway radio promos and contacted the Helpdesk to find out more about the service. Since then he has been a frequent caller to the Helpdesk. In the past months, there were many interactions between our counsellor and Mojesh. Most of the issues he sought answers to, were regarding his financial needs.
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