BILOXI, Miss. — Keith Bynum, a blind Army veteran, lives by this rule: Life is not over just because you can’t see.
“You’ve got to have a positive mind to keep yourself going,” said the 55-year-old.
Bynum is one of 18 veterans at the Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System’s Blind Rehab Center in Biloxi. The facility opened in 2011 and has served 173 veterans in those six years.
Visually challenged gender activist Nidhi Goyal has blamed global airline major Lufthansa of insensitivity and apathy, alleging that she was “locked up” inside the passenger carrier’s disability assistance lounge at Munich airport while waiting for her flight to Mumbai.
The incident, Goyal said, occurred on Monday (November 13) when she was waiting for a connecting flight to Mumbai at the Munich airport.
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Banking Ombudsman Scheme, 2006 (Amended 2017) in its Chapter 4 (8-Grounds of Complaint) (r) states “forced closure of deposit accounts without due notice or without sufficient reason” as a circumstance for redressal of grievance. Vikram Joshi (name changed) turned blind when he was 3 years old as a reaction to a medication he was taking. But his ambitions and hard work never stopped him from taking the less trodden path to success in life. He did his Post-Graduation from Ferguson College, Mumbai in the English Language.
Banks are under-educated on banking norms and policies. They are unaware of their own apex body’s circulars and notifications. Whose fault is it? The clients are often at the receiving end of this ignorant and indifferent attitude of officials. Ashok Dhoni (name changed), a 17-year-old teenager from Ranchi, Jharkhand is suffering at the hands of two public sector banks – Oriental Bank of Commerce and Bank of Baroda-which adds to several other problems spewed out by nationalized banks in India.
Manish (name changed) visited the Eyeway center in Delhi with his parents on 16th October 2017. He is a 15-year-old boy pursuing Class 10 in DPS Sushant Lok. He lives with his parents and younger brother in Gurgaon. His vision is affected by Coloboma (a hole in one of the structures of the eye, such as the iris, retina, choroid, or optic disc) since birth but his vision impairment was noticed only when he was in Class 1. He has had few retinal detachment surgeries to prevent total blindness. He was referred to Eyeway by Dr.
Azhar Mahmood (name changed) from Ludhiana (Punjab) reached the Eyeway Helpdesk. He is 30 years old. He was partially blind by birth and later on became totally blind. He first got in touch with Eyeway on Sep 2016 and conveyed to the counselor that he got to know about the Helpdesk after listening to a radio programme Eyeway Yeh Hai Roshni Ka Karawan. As a child, he faced problems in his studies and later joined a special school to study Braille. After passing higher secondary, he got a government job in Grade D in Panchayati Raj Department which was five years ago.
30-year-old Neelam Singh (name changed), a resident of Delhi who is totally blind approached Eyeway in the month of October. She is employed with All India Radio since 2013 as a Stenographer. But she faces a lot of accessibility issues in her day to day working which not only impacts her performance but also harms her dignity and independence.
Ajit Sharma (name changed) a 31-year-old resident of Delhi who went blind after he met with an accident in 2007 walked into Score Foundation with his parents. They are a well-to-do family, with Ajit’s father a businessman and mother a house-wife. Ajit has gone through the ordeal of being in a coma six months after he met with the accident. They got to know about Eyeway when one day they accidentally bumped into our Helpdesk Operations Manager. But it took them a whole year before they made up their mind to contact Eyeway Helpdesk.
Rajnath Kumar (name changed), a resident of Uttar Pradesh is 100% blind. He is married and a father of two girls. He grew up in the midst of financial troubles. Hailing from a farmer’s family, his education stopped when he passed from 8th standard in school. That was the best his father could afford for him. There was a long period of him remaining as a liability to his family and in despair. But marriage brought a new perspective to his life and economic self-sustenance was inevitable to that. This is when he started ruing about starting a business of his own.
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Vanessa Bahati’s last born son was born with visual impairment. After visiting several hospitals in Europe and locally, the results were negative. The reality that her son would never be able to see propelled her to begin her charity organisation ‘Jordan Foundation’ which was named after her son.
The foundation is now home to other visually impaired children. The mother of four had a chat with Women Today’s Sharon Kantengwa on how the organisation has changed the lives of visually impaired children.
A group of students of the Nalgonda School for the Blind called on President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday, celebrating Children’s Day with other participating schools and institutions.
Sharing the experience of the meeting, General Secretary of the Development & Welfare Association of the Blind (DWAB) P. Chokka Rao said the event was a significant one, and it encouraged the students.
Visually-impaired people have urged the Election Commission (EC) to make necessary arrangements so that they can have the secret voting right.
At an interaction on election of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies at Dhulikhel on Tuesday, the visually impaired also drew the EC’s notice to the lack of voter education programmes for the people with disabilities.
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An awareness campaign about Amblyopia (lazy eyes) and squint (crossed eyes) was taken up by L.V. Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) on the occasion of Children’s Day and as part of Children’s Eye Care Week on Tuesday.
Amblyopia is a vision development disorder among children in which an eye fails to achieve normal vision even with full prescription glasses or contact lens. In most cases, only one eye is affected but if left untreated, it can cause severe visual disability in the affected eye.
Obstructions due to potholes, poles and kiosks on pavements, especially for the differently-abled, in Delhi University’s North Campus on Tuesday led the Delhi High Court to take civic body officials to task for “criminal negligence”.
The Assam Government will provide free textbooks to visually impaired students of the State, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said on Tuesday.
The Chief Minister made the announcement while releasing a guidebook for the visually challenged students for competitive examinations.
Mr. Sonowal said his government has taken up various programmes aimed at uplifting the lives of the 4.4 lakh ’dibyangs’ (differently abled) in Assam.
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