Omron looks to create world’s first poetry library for visually impaired
McCann Health creates a campaign inviting the public to participate, contribute and vote
Achievements
'We See,' a Child Eye Health Project, Aims to Reduce Visual Impairment in South Africa by 90 Percent
Project will address population resources and needs for child eye health services through collaboration between business, government and social sectors.
Dummy Braille ballot sheets to help visually impaired
Introduced for the first time in three districts
Dummy ballot sheets in Braille will be used at polling booths in Ganjam, Khurda, and Cuttack districts to facilitate visually-impaired voters to cast their votes without any attendant. Such a measure is being introduced for the first time.
Quashing of job advertisement; HC asks Centre, Delhi government to reply
The Delhi High Court today asked the Centre and the city government to respond to a PIL seeking quashing of an advertisement for jobs on the ground that seats have not been reserved for persons with disabilities including visually-impaired ones.
"We would expect that by the next date of hearing, the respondents would submit their views with regard to issues raised in the petition," a bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Jayant Nath said.
Indian eye care majors to combat blindness in Commonwealth
Two Indian eye care majors – the Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, and the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad – are among eleven expert institutions chosen from across the world to combat preventable blindness in the Commonwealth.
Special booths for PWDs
Booths in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Berhampur LS constituencies identified
With simultaneous assembly and general elections creating huge optimism in all sections of the society, office of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) is all set to make some identified polling stations friendly to persons with disabilities (PWDs).
A new dawn
Visually impaired Alpine skier lends his guide to teammate leading to Sochi Paralympics bronze medal
Woman can achieve anything
It was in 1955 that my first article on “And Man Can Achieve Anything” appeared in Free Press Bulletin with M.V. Kamath as the Editor. Today, when the world has just celebrated the International Women’s Day (March 8), I would proudly say not only man but woman can achieve anything.
When she talks, the world listens
Physical limitations notwithstanding, professional motivator Preeti Monga has created a world of possibilities
She doesn’t spout quotable quotes like many others. Nor does she give you examples of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. She merely picks up vignettes from her own life — how struggling with blindness she often fell, but every time got up and walked again.
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